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The influential sister of North Korea\u2019s leader, Kim Yo Jong, has accused the US of fighting a \u2018proxy war\u2019 against Russia.<\/p>\n
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Kim Jong has condemned the decision by the United States to supply Ukraine with advanced battle tanks to help fight Russian forces, accusing Washington of crossing a \u201cred line\u201d and escalating a \u201cproxy war\u201d designed to destroy Moscow.<\/p>\n
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The comments on Friday by Kim Yo Jong underscored North Korea\u2019s deepening alignment with Russia over the war in Ukraine while it also confronts the US and its Asian allies about its own growing nuclear weapons and missiles programme.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI express serious concern over the US escalating the war situation by providing Ukraine with military hardware for ground offensive,\u201d Kim Yo Jong said in a statement, her first public remarks in months.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe US is the arch criminal which poses serious threat and challenge to the strategic security of Russia and pushes the regional situation to the present grave phase,\u201d said Kim, who is vice-department director of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI do not doubt that any military hardware the US and the West boast of will be burnt into pieces in the face of the indomitable fighting spirit and might of the heroic Russian army and people,\u201d she said, adding that North Korea will always \u201cstand in the same trench\u201d with Russia.<\/p>\n
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Kim\u2019s comments, carried by the country\u2019s official Korean Central News Agency, came after the US said it would send 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, reversing months of indecision by Washington on the issue. The US announcement followed Germany\u2019s decision to also provide Ukraine with 14 Leopard 2 A6 tanks from its own stocks.<\/p>\n
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administration was \u201cfurther crossing the red line\u201d by sending its main tanks to Ukraine and that the decision reflects a \u201csinister intention to realize its hegemonic aim by further expanding the proxy war for destroying Russia\u201d.<\/p>\n
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North Korea has blamed the US for the crisis in Ukraine, insisting that the West\u2019s \u201chegemonic policy\u201d forced Russia to take military action to protect its security interests.<\/p>\n
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North Korea is also the only nation other than Russia and Syria to recognise the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk, two Russian-backed separatist regions in eastern Ukraine, and has also hinted at plans to send workers there to help with rebuilding efforts.<\/p>\n
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The US has accused North Korea of sending large supplies of artillery shells and other ammunition to Russia to support its offensive in Ukraine, although North Korea has repeatedly denied the claim.<\/p>\n
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Pyongyang has also accelerated its weapons development, test-firing more than 70 missiles in 2022 alone, including potentially nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n
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Source: Al Jazeera<\/p>\n
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