They said such weapons shipments sharply increase the human toll of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
North Korean and Russian flags at the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, about 200 kilometers from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia
A joint statement by the top diplomats of South Korea, the US and Japan came days after Russia’s foreign minister scoffed at a recent US claim that his country received munitions from North Korea, saying that Washington has failed to prove the allegation. The joint statement was meant to show the three countries’ resolve to actively respond to a weapons transfer deal that Russia and North Korea have been pursuing in defiance of repeated warnings by the international community, South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lim Soosuk told reporters.
The US, South Korea and others believe North Korea seeks to receive sophisticated weapons technologies from Russia to enhance its nuclear programme in exchange for its munitions supply. After returning to Moscow, Mr Lavrov dismissed the US accusation of the North Korean arms transfers, saying that “the Americans keep accusing everyone”.Earlier this month, the White House said North Korea had delivered more than 1,000 containers of military equipment and munitions to Russia. The White House released images that it said showed the containers were loaded onto a Russian-flagged ship before being moved via train to southwestern Russia.
Since last year, North Korea has performed more than 100 missile tests, many of them designed to simulate nuclear attacks on South Korea and the US. Experts say Russia’s provision of high-tech weapons technologies would help Mr Kim build much more reliable nuclear weapons systems.
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