North Korea will send thousands of workers to help the renovation of the Russian coarse area, severely affected by the war, said the Chief Secretary of the Russian Security Council.
Sergei Scheg, who met with Kim Jong in Pyongjang on Tuesday, said that it was a “brotherly assistance,” Russian state media reported.
For months, speculation of all deeper military cooperation between the two countries, with the reports that thousands of North Korean soldiers help Russia in the war against Ukraine, Hina, referring to the BBC.
The Russian News Agency Tass said on Wednesday, who said that North Korea would send “the division of builders, two military brigades for 5,000 people and an additional thousand pyrotechnics” for the renovation of the Curst region.
“It is a fraternal assistance to the Korean People and the leader of Kim Jong to our country,” SHIJGA said according to the AFP agency.
North Korean state media added that Kim and Schejga also discussed other long-term plans, not stating the details.
The official of the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated, that they were “seriously concerned about the continuation of illegal cooperation between North Korea and Russia,” emphasizing that it was a violation of UN sanctions. He also expressed concern and Japan.
“We seriously worry these events because the situation in Ukraine is worse and influence the security environment of the region around Japan,” said the Chief Secretary of the Japanese Government of Yoshimasa Hayashi on Wednesday.
In November last year, Russia signed an agreement on mutual defense with North Korea. Both countries then stated that they will provide aid in the case of “aggression” to one of them, and Kim said that their cooperation was filed on the “new level of the Alliance”.
(Vijesti.ba)
