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