Pyongyang condemns US shipments of long-range missiles to Ukraine as a “despicable” policy.

SEOUL, April 29 (Yonhap) — North Korea on Monday condemned the United States for sending long-range tactical missiles to Ukraine for use in its war against Russia, stressing that Washington will not be able to change the course of the war with a nuclear weapon. Such a “despicable” policy.

Last week, the White House confirmed that Washington had sent Ukraine a “large” number of missiles from the Army’s Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), for use on Ukrainian territory, after Russia used missiles against Kiev. North Korean ballistic missiles.

“The long-range missiles provided by the United States will not tip the balance on the battlefield in Ukraine's favor, but will instead fuel the reckless confrontational hysteria of Zelensky's puppet clique,” the director of the Foreign Affairs Department of North Korea's Military Affairs Department said. The Korean Defense Ministry, whose identity has not been revealed, said in an English-language statement published by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency.

The North Korean official also denounced Washington as a peace “harasser”, which has worsened the war by supplying Ukraine with such weapons.

He added that the “despicable” American policy of offering long-range missiles for use against Russia, in an attempt to tip the balance of war, will have no effect, because the United States will never be able to defeat the “heroic army” of the Russian army and people “with the latest weapons or military support.” .

North Korea is one of the few countries that has expressed its support for Russia in the war with Ukraine. It was Pyongyang and Moscow Deepening military relations After the summit between North Korea's Chairman of the State Affairs Committee, Kim Jong Un, and Russian President, Vladimir Putin, in September last year.

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