North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Im Chon Il slammed NATO as instigator of the Ukrainian crisis in a statement published by state-run news agency. He added that North Atlantic bloc and alliance between US, Japan and South Korea is a “cancer tumor” that puts international UN-based order into jeopardy.
EXCLUSIVE: Russia and North Korea - two heavily sanctioned and isolated nations - are cosying up in an alarming show of force against the West. Both have wealthy leaders with nuclear arsenals and they may not be afraid to use them.
Vladimir Putin seems set to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Russia over the coming days to secure a new weapons deal to bolster his Ukraine campaign.