US CLAIMS ABOUT ARMS DELIVERIES TO RUSSIA DENIED BY NORTH KOREA ONCE AGAIN

Sun 29 January 2023:

On Sunday, Kwon Jong Gun, director general of the North Korean Foreign Ministry’s Department of US Affairs, once more refuted US accusations that Pyongyang was providing Russia with weapons and threatened Washington with “really undesirable” repercussions for circulating false information.

“Had the U.S. not infringed upon the just security interests of Russia and accelerated the eastward advance of NATO step by step, the present situation of Ukraine would not have been created … The U.S. again talked about the groundless rumor of ‘arms dealing between the DPRK and Russia,’ in a foolish attempt to justify its offer of weapons to Ukraine,” Kwon said, as quoted by the state-run Korean Central news Agency.

The department head also noted that undermining North Korea’s image in the international arena is “a grave provocation that can never be allowed and that can not but trigger its reaction.”

“The U.S. should be mindful that it will face a really undesirable result if it persists in spreading the self-made rumor against the DPRK,” Kwon said.

The senior official added that Washington itself is persistently pumping Ukraine with weapons, as well as frequently transferring nuclear strike means to the Korean peninsula under the pretext of “extended deterrence” in response to someone’s alleged “provocations.”

Kwon also called the US logic ridiculous and the supply of tanks to Kiev “an unethical crime” that destabilizes the international situation.

Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the deputy head of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, stated earlier this week that North Korea will always be on the side of the people and the Russian army, which defends the “dignity and honor” of the state, its sovereignty, and its security, whereas the US, which supplies Ukraine with weapons, provokes the escalation of the conflict.

North Korea had refuted claims that it provided Russia with weapons in December. The spokesman for North Korea’s foreign ministry claimed that Pyongyang and Moscow had never struck any arms deals and that any media reports to the contrary were the most ridiculous rumors.

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