WASHINGTON: Ten international locations and the EU known as North Korea’s growing involvement in Russia’s war in Ukraine a “harmful growth” on Monday (Dec 16), in a joint assertion launched by the USA.
Pyongyang has sent thousands of troops to reinforce Russia’s war effort, together with to the Kursk border area the place Ukraine reported Monday that its fighters had killed or wounded a minimum of 30 North Korean troopers.
“Direct DPRK help for Russia’s battle of aggression in opposition to Ukraine marks a harmful growth of the battle, with critical penalties for European and Indo-Pacific safety,” the assertion mentioned, referring to North Korea by its official acronym.
The international ministers of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, the UK, the USA and the excessive consultant of the European Union signed the discharge.
In addition they mentioned that they had been “deeply involved about any political, navy, or financial help that Russia could also be offering to the DPRK’s unlawful weapons applications, together with weapons of mass destruction”.
