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North Korea scoffs at Zelensky’s ‘absurd’ Russia accomplice remarks

The US and the West are also accomplices for arming Ukraine ‘if we follow his logic’, Kim Jong-un’s powerful sister says

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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky at the UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday last week. Photo: dpa
North Korea is expected to increase its military backing for Russia, following a fiery response to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s recent accusation that Pyongyang is acting as a “de facto accomplice” in Moscow’s “criminal war”.
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Kim Yo-jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, fired back at Zelensky’s claims made during a UN Security Council meeting last week.

“Russia has no legitimate reason – none at all – for making Iran and North Korea de facto accomplices in its criminal war in Europe,” Zelensky said, further accusing Pyongyang of supplying weapons that were being used to kill Ukrainian civilians.

In a parallel address, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken echoed Zelensky’s concerns, charging North Korea with sending “trainloads of weapons and ammunition to Russia, including ballistic missiles, launchers, and millions of artillery rounds”.

Responding to the accusations, Kim Yo-jong dismissed Zelensky’s remarks as “absurd”, labelling them a “reckless political provocation that cannot be justified”.

If the US and the West continue to play with fire against a nuclear superpower like Russia, can they truly afford the consequences that may follow?
Kim Yo-jong

“If we follow his logic, the US and the West, which have delivered the most weapons and ammunition to the Ukrainian battlefields, should also be granted special accomplice status,” she said in remarks carried by North Korean state media.

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