Blinken’s warning to North Korea about Pyongyang’s participation in the Ukraine war – Mehr News Agency | RCO News Agency
According to RCO News Agency, quoted by KBS, US Secretary of State Ahony Blinken warned North Korea about any participation of the coury’s forces in the war in Ukraine.
In a joi press conference with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Brussels, Blinken said that global security is increasingly ierconnected in many regions, including the Euro-Atlaic, Indo-Pacific and the Middle East, and as a result couries and military alliances to effectively couer these threats. , should strengthen cooperation with each other.
He, who traveled to Brussels to attend the meeting of the North Atlaic Council (NATO’s main policy-making body), claimed that North Korean forces have been se to the battle fros in Ukraine and are “practically” engaged in war. According to him, such an action will be met with a serious response.
Blinken’s stateme comes while Veda Patel, the spokesperson of the US State Departme, claimed yesterday that more than 10,000 North Korean soldiers “have been se to the east of Russia, and most of them have been transferred to the western end of the Kursk region and are participating in combat operations with Russian forces.” !
Moscow and Pyongyang signed a bilateral strategic partnership agreeme in June. This week, Russian Preside Vladimir Putin officially signed the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreeme between Moscow and Pyongyang, and two days later, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed it. According to this treaty, in case of attack by a third coury, the parties are obliged to provide military assistance to each other.
Without confirming or denying reports about the presence of North Korean forces in Russia, Putin emphasized that “what the two couries do to fulfill their requiremes and obligations under the new agreeme is only between North Korea and Russia.”
