Dorothy Camille Shea – Deputy US Ambassador to the Security Council UN – reported on Wednesday that w Russia currently stationed over 12 thousand soldiers North Koreawho started fighting with Ukrainian forces in the Kursk Oblast last month.
– North Korea benefits significantly from receiving Russian military equipment, technology and experience, which makes it more prepared to wage war with its neighbors (South Korea – ed.) – warned the diplomat at the UNSC meeting on Monday's ballistic tests by Pyongyang.
War in Ukraine. US warns: North Korea benefits significantly
Representative United States emphasized that the Kim Jong Un regime “he will certainly want to take advantage of these benefits to promote arms sales and military training contracts around the world.”
North Korean ambassador to the United Nations Kim Song justified the recent missile test as “part of a plan to strengthen the country's defense capabilities.” At the same time, he accused the US of applying double standards.
– When the number of civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip exceeded 45 thousand peoplethe United States justified vile and mass murder Israelpresenting it as a right to self-defense. Meanwhile, the same United States they question the right to self-defense entitled to the DPRK, said the representative of North Korea during the meeting.
Russia attacks the USA. “Unfounded speculations and slander”
Wasilij Nebenzia – Russia's ambassador to the UN – repeated constant accusations MoscowThat WashingtonSeoul and Tokyo provoke Pyongyang with military exercises. He also rejected US claims that The Kremlin intends to share satellite and space technology with Kim Jong Un's regime.
– There are such statements another example of baseless guessworkwhose purpose is denigration of bilateral cooperation between the Russian Federation and the friendly Democratic People's Republic of Korea, said Vasily Nebenzia. The diplomat also congratulated the country's dictator on his occasion birthdaywhich falls on January 8.
Ambassador South Korea at the UN Joonkook Hwang instead, he said, North Korean soldiers were “basically Kim Jong Un's slavesbrainwashed into sacrificing their lives on distant battlefields to finance the regime and acquire advanced technology military from Russia.