North Korea denies arming Russia’s Wagner group
After the United States accused North Korea of delivering rockets and missiles to the Russian Wagner Group and supporting Moscow’s forces in Ukraine, Pyongyang denied arming Russia.
In a statement released on Sunday, a senior North Korean official denounced the US accusations as “baseless rumor” intended to support Washington’s own military assistance to Ukraine.
As a result of the private military organization’s alleged weapons transactions with North Korea, which are forbidden by United Nations Security Council resolutions, the US labeled Wagner as a “transnational criminal organization” earlier this month.
Additionally, the White House displayed what it claimed to be images from US intelligence showing Russian rail wagons entering North Korea, loading up with infantry rockets and missiles, and then leaving for Russia.
But on Sunday, Kwon Jong Gun, the director general of the North Korean Department of US Affairs, refuted the charges and threatened the US with a “very terrible result” if it continued to promote the “self-made rumor.”
Kwon Jong Gun stated, “Trying to ruin [North Korea’s] image by creating a non-existent object is a grave provocation that can never be tolerated and that cannot help but cause its retaliation.
A ridiculous attempt was made by the US to legitimize its supply of arms to Ukraine, he continued, calling the move.
Ahead of Moscow’s invasion, US President Joe Biden pledged 31 Abrams tanks, one of the most potent and advanced weapons in the US army, to support Kyiv.
But on Sunday, Kwon Jong Gun, the director general of the North Korean Department of US Affairs, refuted the charges and threatened the US with a “very terrible result” if it continued to promote the “self-made rumor.”
Kwon Jong Gun stated, “Trying to ruin [North Korea’s] image by creating a non-existent object is a grave provocation that can never be tolerated and that cannot help but cause its retaliation.
A ridiculous attempt was made by the US to legitimize its supply of arms to Ukraine, he continued, calling the move.
Ahead of Moscow’s invasion, US President Joe Biden pledged 31 Abrams tanks, one of the most potent and advanced weapons in the US army, to support Kyiv.
One of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, Russia, has long resisted putting more pressure on North Korea, which possesses nuclear weapons, even going so far as to request an end to international sanctions for humanitarian grounds.
Other than Syria and Russia, Luhansk and Donetsk, two Russian-backed separatist areas in eastern Ukraine, are only recognized as independent states by North Korea.
North Korea asserted in November that it has never transacted in armaments with Russia and had no plans to do so after the White House claimed Pyongyang was secretly supplying Moscow with a “substantial” quantity of artillery shells.
