SEOUL – Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, has dismissed accusations that Pyongyang is shipping weapons to Russia, the state media Korean Central News Agency reported on Friday.
The United States and South Korea have repeatedly accused North Korea of supplying weapons to Moscow, despite United Nations sanctions on both countries that would ban such arms transfers.Analysts have also warned that ramped-up testing and production of artillery and cruise missiles by the nuclear-armed North could be in preparation for shipments to Russia for use in Ukraine.
The largely isolated North has recently bolstered military ties with Moscow, and Pyongyang thanked Russia last month for using its UN Security Council veto to block the renewal of a panel of experts that monitored international sanctions on Kim's regime.South Korea asserted in March that North Korea had shipped around 7,000 containers of arms to Russia for its war with Ukraine, transfers Seoul believes began around last July.
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