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Complete support and solidarity with the fighting Russian army and people.”
North Korean military officials were seen clapping under a banner that read
The agreement aims to reduce the risk of war, including nuclear weapons, and to make a positive contribution to maintaining the balance of power in the region,
Belousov said
Continuously strengthening and developing (combat friendship and cooperation) is the steadfast position of our army,
No said
Today, friendly ties between Russia and North Korea are expanding across all areas, including military collaboration. We are committed to implementing all agreements reached at the highest level,
Mr Belousov told Mr No during their meeting, news agency Tass reported
We look forward to close and fruitful cooperation with our Korean comrades,
the Russian minister saidThe Russian defence minister doesn't visit North Korea just to celebrate bilateral ties,
said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul
They're there, I saw them with my own eyes,
Romanov said, describing them as "highly trained and motivated" and able to work with any weapons
If you give them something, they already know how to use it and that includes heavy weaponry,
he said in an excerpt posted by X account War is Translated, but he addedAll this talk about contact with Koreans by the enemy is nonsense, they are there but they are not taking part in combat,
he added
Rudenko is claiming that [Russia] is going to give technologies to North Korea, but the Russians have been already doing it,
Bennett saidIf the North Korean military gains experience in modern warfare, it can be a fatal problem for our national security,
Yoon saidWe will watch closely how Russia and North Korea develop their military cooperation, and we will continue to take a step-by-step approach based on that development,
said Koo Byung-sam, spokesperson for South Korea’s Unification Ministry in charge of inter-Korean affairs, leaving open the possibility of arms support for Ukraine
It is Russia and Russia alone that is responsible for the very real security concerns that South Korea and the United States and Japan and any number of other countries have about the movement of DPRK troops to join the fight in Russia against Ukraine,
Miller saidWe will respond in every way that we find necessary.”
Rudenko continued, sayingWe do not rule out weapons support,
he said ... adding that