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We believe that the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] has sent around 10,000 soldiers in total to train in eastern Russia that will probably augment Russian forces near Ukraine over the next several weeks,
Deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh told journalists, using an abbreviation for North Korea's official name
China will continue to play a constructive role to this end,
he addedBut I think this is a demand signal that’s coming not just from us, but from countries around the world,
he said at a news conference in Washington with defence secretary Lloyd Austin and their South Korean counterparts
As for the issue of the Korean Peninsula, China is a friend of both North Korea and South Korea. It is not the case that China is responsible to manage North Korea and the US is responsible for managing South Korea,
Mr Lu saidChina's position of hoping various parties will promote an easing of the situation and work for a political solution to the Ukraine crisis has not changed,
Lin said
North Korea and Russia are two independent sovereign states. How they develop bilateral relations is their own matter,
Beijing's foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said
Should DPRK's troops enter Ukraine in support of Russia, they will surely return in body bags. So I would advise Chairman Kim to think twice about engaging in such reckless and dangerous behavior."
However, deputy U.S. Ambassador Robert Wood warned North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
These statements about the North Korean soldiers in our front should not surprise no one, because they’re all barefaced lies and they are trying to distract.”
Speaking at the UNSC meeting, Russia’s Nebenzya said
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I call upon them to withdraw their troops out of Russia,
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said at the Pentagon, speaking alongside his South Korean counterpart, Kim Yong-hyun, who urged the “immediate withdrawal” of Pyongyang’s forcesBuilding the interoperability of the Russian and DPRK armies constitutes a threat to Europe, the Korean peninsula, its neighbours and beyond,
he addedEven if everything that is being said about the cooperation between Russia and North Korea by our Western colleagues is true, why is it that the United States and allies are trying to impose on everyone the flawed logic that they have the right to help the [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy regime mobilise the military and intelligence of NATO, and Russia and its allies have no right to do a similar thing?”
He later addedI would like to underscore that the Russian interaction with DPRK in the military and other areas is in line with international law and is not a violation of it. It’s not aimed against third countries,
Vasily Nebenzya said at a UN Security Council meeting on Wednesday, using the acronym of the country’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea