BRISBANE: Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday (Jul 28) said that the United States believes Russia's defence minister is in North Korea to secure supplies of weapons to aid the stalled invasion of Ukraine. Following Sergei Shoigu's arrival on a rare trip to Pyongyang, Blinken said that Russia is
BRISBANE: Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday said that the United States believes Russia's defence minister is in North Korea to secure supplies of weapons to aid the stalled invasion of Ukraine.
"We see that in North Korea, we see that as well with Iran, which has provided many drones to Russia that it's using to destroy civilian infrastructure and killed civilians in Ukraine." In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, third right, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, fourth right, and China's Vice Chairman of the standing committee of the country’s National People’s Congress Li Hongzhong, second right, attend a military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the armistice that halted fighting in the 1950-53 Korean War, on Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea Thursday, Jul 27, 2023.
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