North Korea criticises the US for sending tanks to Ukraine

North Korea criticises the US decision to arm Ukraine with tanks, saying it “further expands the proxy war” to destabilize Russia. This comes from Seoul.

Ahead of Moscow’s assault of Kyiv this week, US President Joe Biden pledged 31 Abrams tanks, one of the most potent and advanced weapons in the US army.

Russia, one of the North’s only allies outside of China, has previously stepped in to support the leadership.

North Korea criticises the US: Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, blamed Washington for the crisis in Ukraine in a statement released late Friday, saying it “further crossed the red line” by sending the tanks.

In the statement, she said that “lurking behind everything is the US nefarious goal to accomplish its hegemonic aim by further expanding the proxy war for destroying Russia.”

She continued, calling Washington “the arch criminal,” and declaring that Pyongyang will “always stand in the same trench” as the Russian military and populace.

If it weren’t for the United States, she claimed, “the globe would be brighter, safer, and calmer now.”

North Korea is the only nation that has acknowledged the independence of Luhansk and Donetsk, two Russian-backed separatist areas in eastern Ukraine, aside from Syria and Russia.

One of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, Russia, has long resisted putting more pressure on North Korea, which possesses nuclear weapons, even going so far as to request an end to international sanctions for humanitarian grounds.

North Korea conducted sanctions-busting weapons tests nearly every month last year, including the launch of its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile, and Kim Jong Un declared the country to be a “irreversible” nuclear state in September.