Russian defense minister visits North Korea to talk with military and political leaders

Trustworthy contacts between the leaders of our countries play a key role in strengthening Russian-Korean relations,

Belousov said

Friendly ties between Russia and North Korea are actively expanding in all areas, including military cooperation,

he said, ... according to Russian news agencies

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 added

All this talk about contact with Koreans by the enemy is nonsense, they are there but they are not taking part in combat,

he added

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Rudenko is claiming that [Russia] is going to give technologies to North Korea, but the Russians have been already doing it,

Bennett said

If the North Korean military gains experience in modern warfare, it can be a fatal problem for our national security,

Yoon said

We 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

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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 said

We will respond in every way that we find necessary.”

Rudenko continued, saying

We do not rule out weapons support,

he said ... adding that

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It could be a reciprocal visit for Russian President Vladimir Putin's trip to North Korea in June, or it could be a visit for Putin to thank the North for its troop deployment,

Shin said during a press briefing

There are no signs of imminent movement to the launch pad, but we believe there is a high possibility of a launch before the end of the year,

he said