US calls on a silent China to use its sway over Russia and North Korea

With boots on the ground alongside the supply of munitions, the DPRK has become the most visible, ardent, and committed supporter of Russia's aggression in Europe,

Hwang said on Wednesday

As legitimate military targets, they will end up as mere cannon fodder, while the wages they are supposed to receive from Russia will end up squarely in Kim Jong-un's pocket,

Hwang said of the Russia-bound North Korean troops

Pyongyang's treatment of its young soldiers, its own people, as expendable will be never forgiven,

he added

I would advise Chairman Kim to think twice about engaging in such reckless and dangerous behaviour,

Wood added

Sergiy Kyslytsyaambassador

According to available information, between October 23 and 28, at least seven aircraft carrying military personnel of up to 2,100 soldiers flew from the Eastern Military District to Russia's border with Ukraine,

Kyslytsya said

Vasily Nebenzyaambassador

We can see the Western spectacle in the Security Council today pursuing another goal. The Zelenskyy regime and collaborators for two years have been trying to compel the Republic of Korea [South Korea] to more actively cooperate with the Kyiv regime, and to have them provide and supply the much-needed lethal weapons. And here, the anti-Pyongyang frenzied rhetoric is very convenient for Washington, London and Brussels, because their own supply is something that the Kyiv regime has drained,

Nebenzia said

If Russia's sovereignty and security interests are exposed to and threatened by continued dangerous attempts of the United States and the West, and if it is judged that we should respond to them with something, we will make a necessary decision,

Ambassador Kim Song told the council

Sergiy Kyslytsyaambassador

This contingent includes at least 500 officers of the DPRK army, with at least three generals from the general staff,

Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya said, using the abbreviation for North Korea's full name

Lloyd Austinu.S. Defense Secretary

They're doing this because [Russian President Vladimir] Putin has lost a lot of troops, a lot of troops. And, you know, he has a choice of either getting other people to help him, or he can mobilize. And he doesn't want to mobilize, because then the people in Russia will begin to understand the extent of his losses, of their losses,

Austin said during a joint news conference at the Pentagon

Kim Jong Un didn't hesitate to sell out his young people and troops as cannon fodder mercenaries,

Kim said

Lloyd Austinu.S. Defense Secretary

I call upon them to withdraw their troops out of Russia,

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said at the Pentagon, echoing a call by his South Korean counterpart Kim Yong-hyun, who stood beside him

At the current moment, nothing is determined,

Kim said when asked if there are plans for South Korea to indirectly supply munitions to Ukraine

Our military detected one ballistic missile launched from the Pyongyang area toward the East Sea at approximately 7:10 AM (2210 GMT) today,

Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said, referring to the body of water also known as the Sea of Japan

Our military has heightened its alert level and is closely sharing information regarding North Korea's ballistic missile with the US and Japan authorities, maintaining a thorough readiness posture,

Seoul's JCS added

I’ve tried to contribute as much as possible to strengthening relations between Russia and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,

Kushnirenko said, using the official name for North Korea

Maria Zakharovaforeign Ministry spokeswoman

Choe Son Hui is coming to Moscow on an official visit to hold strategic consultations with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov,

foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said

The radio silence in Beijing on this subject is staggering,

said Dennis Wilder, a former senior intelligence official with the CIA

The panic is that Russia now has arguably much more influence over North Korea than China does,

added Cha, who is currently president of the Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department at CSIS

Vedant Patelstate Department deputy spokesperson

We, of course, welcome any country supporting our Ukrainian partners as they continue to defend their territorial integrity and sovereignty,

State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel told VOA during a recent briefing

And so [Chinese President Xi Jinping is] in a very, very difficult spot,

said Wilder during a seminar hosted by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, or CSIS, on Tuesday