2023-09-04 20:25:06
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wants “a diplomatic exchange at the highest level” in Russia with President Vladimir Putin to discuss Pyongyang’s arms sale to Moscow, the White House said on Monday.
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“As we have said before, arms supply negotiations between Russia and North Korea are actively progressing,” said Adrienne Watson, a spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council.
And “we know that Kim Jong-Un wants these negotiations to continue, including a diplomatic exchange at the highest level in Russia,” she added in an email to the press.
On Wednesday, the chief spokesman for the National Security Council, John Kirby, had already expressed alarm at the rapid progress of these negotiations on future arms deliveries from Pyongyang to Moscow and had called on the communist regime to “stop these discussions.
Mr Kirby had revealed that “these potential deals would see Russia receive significant amounts” of armaments, particularly artillery ammunition, as well as raw materials for its defense industry.
These weapons would be “used once morest Ukraine”, added the American ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
The White House on Monday once more denounced the late July visit of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to North Korea, where he attended a military parade alongside Kim Jong Un, in order to “try to convince Pyongyang to sell artillery ammunition to Russia”.
For Washington, such agreements between Moscow and Pyongyang “would violate Security Council resolutions” once morest North Korea.
In mid-August, President Putin and North Korea had advocated increased cooperation, particularly in the field of defence, a new illustration of the rapprochement between these two adversaries of the United States since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. .
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