(Washington Composite) The United States means North Korea is trying to transport a large number of shells to Russia through the Middle East or Africa.The United States does not know whether Russia has received these arms, but is still monitoring.
The White House National Security Council spokesman Kobe said to the media on Wednesday (November 2) that American information shows that North Korea provides a large number of artillery shells to Russia in Ukraine in Ukraine, and try to confuse the real destination of weapons transportation, so that letThey look like they are sent to the Middle East or North African countries.
Cerby said: "We will monitor whether these goods reach their destinations."
For the White House referring to North Korea to provide weapons for Russia, Pyongyang has publicly denied this in September.At that time, the North Korean Society quoted an official of the North Korean Ministry of Defense Equipment and said: "We never exported weapons or ammunition to Russia before, and we did not intend to export these weapons."
Kobe said that the United States believes that North Korea has transported a large number of artillery shells, enough to help Russia to prolong war, but not enough for the Russian army to occupy the upper hand in the war.
"This is a considerable number of artillery. This not only indicates that North Korea supports Russia, but also shows that there is a shortage of national defense supplies in Russia."
He pointed out that because global sanctions restricted Russia's ability to supplement their own fire inventory, Moscow was forced to obtain weapons from North Korea and Iran.
Iran has transported its drones to Russia, and the Russian army used it to attack and destroy Ukraine infrastructure.The Kremlin was reportedly tried to buy short -range ballistic missiles from Iran, but Kobe said that it has not been confirmed.
Kobe did not disclose the method or route of North Korea's arms, and also refused to comment on whether the United States would intercept or confiscate the weapons of Iran and North Korea.
He said that the countermeasures that the United States may take can take consultations with allies and partner countries, especially for the United Nations to raise this issue.
U.S. State Department spokesman Price said at a regular press conference that sanctions are one of the options.He said: "Just as we use every tool to deal with Iran's act of providing weapons to Russia, we will do this on North Korea with weapons to Russia."
Because Iran provides drones to Russia, the United States has imposed sanctions on Iranian companies that transport drones to Russia in September. The other three companies participating in the production of Iranian drones were also sanctions.
On the other hand, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on Wednesday that the Russian side can only use nuclear weapons when they are attacked by large -scale lethal weapons or facing the threat of the country's existence.The priority is to prevent military conflicts from occurring in nuclear powers.
