Pyongyang’s top diplomat also informed his Russian counterpart of the United States and South Korea of the existence of a “nuclear plot” against North Korea.
North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui said in Moscow that North Korea will support Russia until it achieves victory in Ukraine, at a time when the United States warned that there are thousands of Pyongyang forces on the Ukrainian border and could soon be deployed to fight.
In her meeting on Friday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Choe also accused the United States and South Korea of planning a nuclear strike against her country.
She added, “Our traditional, historically friendly relations, which have followed the path of governed history, today… rise to a new level of invincible military comradely relations,” praising the role played by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the Foreign Minister in this regard. Russian President Vladimir Putin.
She said North Korea has no doubt that under Putin’s “wise leadership” the Russian army and people “will achieve a great victory in their sacred struggle to protect the sovereign rights and security interests of their country.”
“We also emphasize that until Victory Day we will stand firmly by our Russian comrades,” Choi said.
Lavrov spoke of the “very close relations” between the armies of the two countries, and said that this enabled them to solve important security tasks together.
The two did not address statements by leaders in Ukraine, South Korea, and their Western allies that Pyongyang had deployed about 10,000 North Korean soldiers to Russia to fight in Ukraine.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Thursday that up to 8,000 North Korean soldiers are in the Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces crossed the border into Russia in a surprise incursion in August, and that he expects them to engage in combat against Ukraine in 2019. The coming days.
“We are very grateful to our Korean friends for their principled position regarding the events that are now unfolding in Ukraine as a result of the West’s course of NATO advancing to the East and encouraging an openly racist regime to exterminate everything Russian,” Lavrov said.
Choe told Lavrov that the situation on the Korean Peninsula could become “explosive” at any moment, given the threats from Washington and Seoul, but she did not provide any evidence to support her claims.
She said North Korea needs to strengthen its nuclear arsenal and improve its preparedness for a retaliatory nuclear strike if necessary.
On Thursday, Pyongyang confirmed that it had launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile towards the waters off its east coast, in the longest flight time yet for a North Korean missile, according to authorities in South Korea and Japan, raising fears of the development of advanced weapons by 2019. The isolated nation .
The official Korean Central News Agency reported that Kim was present at the missile launch test and issued a warning to his enemies, describing it as an expression of his country’s determination to respond to external threats to North Korea’s security.
North Korea on Friday boasted that the intercontinental ballistic missile it launched was the “most powerful missile in the world” and described it as the Hwasong-19.
