Ukraine-Russia latest: US warns North Korea becoming better prepared for war as 13 killed in Zaporizhzhia
North Korean troops ‘significantly benefiting from receiving Russian military aid’, says US
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Your support makes all the difference.North Korea is benefiting from its troops fighting alongside Russia against Ukraine and gaining the experience that is making it “more capable of waging war against its neighbours”, the US has warned.
“The DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) is significantly benefiting from receiving Russian military equipment, technology and experience, rendering it more capable of waging war against its neighbours,” deputy US ambassador to the UN, Dorothy Shea, said yesterday, referring to the East Asian country by its official name.
She was addressing the UN Security Council members over what Pyongyang said was a test of a new intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile on Monday.
More than 12,000 North Korean troops are in Russia and last month began fighting against Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk, Ms Shea told the UNSC.
More than a dozen people have been killed after a Russian glide bomb hit a street in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, local officials have reported.
“Thirteen killed in enemy attack on Zaporizhia,” local governor Ivan Fedorov wrote. “Russia is a terrorist country.”
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