According to the North Korean leader, the United States is “fueling global tensions” that could soon escalate.The United States is fueling “global tensions” that could escalate “into the most destructive thermonuclear war.” The accusation comes from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on the day Vladimir Putin announced that Russia will respond with weapons to any country whose missiles are used to hit targets on Moscow’s territory , namely the United States and Great Britain.
Kim, who now pledges his full support to Russian President Vladimir Putin as he continues what the Kremlin launched a thousand days ago in Ukraine as a “special military operation,” then accused the United States of taking military pressure and provocations to “extremes.”Thus, he says, Pyongyang “will develop self-defense capabilities more aggressively and without limits to meet the ever-evolving threats posed by enemy methods of warfare.”
At the event attended yesterday by the North Korean leader, “strategic and tactical weapons” were also presented. According to a published photo, highlights the South Korean agency Yonhap, intercontinental and hypersonic ballistic missiles were on display, as well as drones and multiple rocket launchers.
Putin, the answer to the West and the new missile
On the same day, the Russian president confirmed that Russia had launched its “latest missile,” an IRBM called Oreshnik, in an attack on Dnipro in eastern Ukraine. Putin said the test was a response to Ukraine targeting facilities in Russia’s Kursk and Bryansk regions with Western-supplied ATACMS and Storm Shadow long-range missiles. The Oreshnik missile is designed to carry nuclear weapons.The Kremlin leader then warned that Russia would use the weapons against any country whose missiles were used to strike Russian targets.
Russia would have provided economic support and anti-aircraft missiles to North Korea in exchange for troops to support Moscow’s war against Ukraine, Seoul’s security chief told SBS television.
“It has been confirmed that anti-aircraft equipment and missiles intended to strengthen Pyongyang’s vulnerable air defense system have been delivered to North Korea,” said Shin Won-sik, Seoul’s top security adviser.
North Korea has sent 10,000 troops to Russia, most of them deployed in the western Kursk Oblast and involved in the fighting, a Pentagon spokesman said, while Russia is assembling an army of 50,000 troops, including North Korean troops, to launch against Ukrainians in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, The New York Times reported.
The new force to support Moscow arrived last month as Russia suffered its heaviest losses and some experts say North Korean troops could replace wounded and killed Russian soldiers.