North Korea has expressed its full support for Russia following the rebellion by the Wagner paramilitary group, local state media reported on Sunday.
In a meeting with the Russian ambassador in Pyongyang, Alexander Matsegora, North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Im Chon Il “expressed his firm belief that the recent armed rebellion in Russia will be successfully suppressed,” the North Korean news agency KCNA reported.
The head of the Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, called off rebellion movements in Russia against the military command late Saturday afternoon, less than 24 hours after having occupied Rostov, a key city in the south of the country for the war in Ukraine. . frontally challenging the authority of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
According to KCNA, Im Chon Il said that “the Russian army and people will certainly overcome difficulties and heroically emerge victorious from the special military operation against Ukraine.”
For Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul, quoted by the French news agency AFP, Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine threatens the “stability of the Russian state.”
“There will be implications for the Russia-China-North Korea bloc and the authorities in Beijing and Pyongyang are certainly taking notes to avoid repeating Moscow’s mistakes,” he added.
North Korea called the conflict a “proxy war” by the United States aimed at destroying Russia and condemned Western military aid to kyiv.
As a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, Russia has long vetoed new sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear program and repeated missile launches.
Source: TSF
