North Korea has denied it was furnishing arms to Russia, state media said, weeks after the United States said Moscow was turning to Pyongyang to replenish its stocks depleted by the conflict in Ukraine.
“We’ve no way exported munitions or security to Russia ahead and we won’t plan to export them,” a functionary at the Defence Ministry’s General Bureau of Equipment said in a statement on Thursday carried by the sanctioned Korean Central News Agency(KCNA).
The statement comes after the White House said before in September that Russia was buying ordnance shells and rockets from North Korea to support its descent in Ukraine.
National Security Council prophet John Kirby said the United States believed purchases “could include literally millions of rounds, rockets and ordnance shells.”
Still, citing declassified US intelligence, he stressed at the time that the purchases weren’t yet completed and that there was no suggestion the munitions were being used in Ukraine.
Rumors of arms dealings
Moscow- supporter Pyongyang hit out at the United States in the statement, saying Washington and “other hostile forces” were “spreading a rumor of arms dealings’ between the DPRK and Russia,” using the sanctioned acronym for North Korea.
“We advise the US to stop making reckless reflections,” it said while emphasizing North Korea maintains the right to export military outfits.
The White House indicated that the purchase of ordnance security from the insulated North Korean government, as well as a deal to buy military drones from Iran, showed Russia was in dire woe after months of Western profitable and technological warrants aimed at crippling its assault machine.
