Her government North Korea denied yesterday Sunday that he was supplying her Russia with weapons and ammunition, after the US government accused him of sending missiles and missiles to a Russian private military company Wagnerwho most recently starred in the war in Ukraine.

Last week, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby released US intelligence footage that he said showed Russian trains returning from North Korea loaded with military equipment, including Wagner missiles.

At the same time, Washington described Wagner as a “criminal organization”, while saying that he sent the materials he had to the UN as part of the sanctions against Pyongyang.

Today, a North Korean government spokesman said it was a “stupid attempt to justify” future heavy weapons deliveries to Ukraine by the US government, which promised 31 Abrams tanks in Kyiv on Thursday.

Kwong Jeong-gun, director general of the US Department of Affairs, told the state news agency KCNA of “totally fabricated rumors” and warned Washington that he would face “completely undesirable consequences” if he continued to spread it.

“Trying to tarnish North Korea’s image by creating something that doesn’t exist is a serious problem that cannot be tolerated and that can cause backlash,” he continued.

Referring to the upcoming delivery of American tanks to the Ukrainian army, he called it “an immoral crime” aimed at “preserving instability in the international situation.”

Already the day before yesterday, Kim Yo Yong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and an influential figure in North Korea, criticized the United States for new promises to send more military equipment to Ukraine, believing that they not only violated, but “go even further than the red line.”

Russia, along with China, is one of Pyongyang’s few allies at the international level.

Apart from Syria and Russia, North Korea is the only country that has recognized the independence of the pro-Russian Lugansk and Donetsk regions in eastern Ukraine.

Russia, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, has long opposed tightening international sanctions against North Korea, suggesting instead that they be eased on humanitarian grounds.

In 2022, Kim Jong-un announced that his country intended to acquire the most powerful nuclear arsenal in the world, and in September called North Korea’s nuclear status “irreversible.”

Seoul and Washington have said since last year that Pyongyang plans to conduct another nuclear weapons test, the seventh in its history and the first since 2017.

^{Source: APE, AFP, Reuters.}