Discussions that irritate the United States. On Tuesday, September 5, the White House officially warned that a North Korean delivery of weapons to Russia would expose Pyongyang to sanctions. “It will not reflect well on Korea and the North and they will pay the price in the international community,” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan warned. And this, while “active discussions” are underway between Moscow and Pyongyang. It could be deliveries of artillery weapons.
Washington also believes that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un intends to visit Russia to talk with President Vladimir Putin. The United States expects the issue of arms sales from Pyongyang to Moscow for its war in Ukraine to be on the menu. At the end of August, the chief spokesman of the National Security Council, John Kirby, had already expressed alarm at the rapid progress of these negotiations on future arms deliveries from Pyongyang to Moscow and had summoned the communist regime to ” cease” these discussions.
Jake Sullivan, however, admitted that he was unable to say what types of weapons would be delivered. But “it says a lot about Russia having to turn to a country like North Korea to build up its defense capabilities,” he said. Pyongyang could in particular supply ammunition for artillery, as well as raw materials for the Russian defense industry.
