US, China Officials Discuss Russia-North Korea Military Cooperation

24/2/2024 6:25

        A top U.S. official on North Korea held a video call this week with China's envoy on Korean Peninsula affairs in which they discussed the growing military cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang, the State Department said on Friday.
        
        The U.S. senior official for North Korea, Jung Pak, and her Chinese counterpart, Liu Xiaoming, also addressed North Korea's "increasingly destabilizing and escalatory behavior," the department said in a statement.
        
        It said the growing military cooperation between Russia and North Korea was "in violation of numerous UN Security Council resolutions."
        
        Russia has long been party to U.N. sanctions on North Korea over the latter's ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs but has stepped up ties with Pyongyang since invading Ukraine in 2022.
        
        The United States has accused North Korea of supplying Russia with artillery shells and missiles used in Ukraine.