Putin doesn’t rule out supplying weapons to North Korea as NATO does in Ukraine

Moscow, June 20 (EFE).- Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t rule out supplying weapons to North Korea on Thursday in response to the supply of recent weapons to Ukraine by NATO nations.

«We reserve the best to produce weapons to different areas of the world. And I don’t rule this out both in view of our settlement with the Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea,” Putin stated throughout a press convention on the finish of his go to to Vietnam, broadcast on Russian public tv.

Putin assured that “the Westerners present weapons to Ukraine and from then on they are saying that they now not management something, and it doesn’t matter how they’re used.”

“Effectively, we are able to additionally say that we’ve provided one thing to somebody after which we’re not accountable for something,” he stated.

Relating to the mutual help settlement in case of aggression signed this Wednesday with Pyongyang, Putin downplayed it, arguing that “it’s nothing new.”

«We’ve signed this settlement as a result of the outdated one has ceased to exist. And within the earlier settlement of 1961 it was all the identical, there’s nothing new,” he acknowledged.

Though he admitted that “within the present context this appears one thing extraordinary,” he added that “we’ve hardly modified something” and that the state of affairs on the earth requires legally strengthening relations with Russia’s companions, particularly in Asia.

South Korea “doesn’t have to fret, since our army support underneath the settlement we signed solely arises if aggression is dedicated in relation to one of many signatories of the doc. So far as I do know, the Republic of Korea will not be planning aggression towards North Korea,” he famous.

Putin pressured that, in actuality, the settlement he signed with the North Korean chief, Kim Jong-un, will likely be “a deterrent issue in order that the (Korean) disaster” doesn’t translate into an armed battle.

And, in response to a reporter’s query, he dominated out the doable deployment of North Korean troopers to the Ukrainian battlefield.

The signing of the mutual help settlement between Russia and North Korea has triggered nice unrest in Seoul, but in addition in the US and Japan.

Putin at the moment additionally referred to as a few of the sanctions adopted towards the North Korean communist regime “inhumane” and referred to as for his or her lifting.

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