The White House says it has confirmed its suspicions that North Korea has been arming Russian forces in Ukraine, with intelligence photographs showing hundreds of containers of munitions from the regime of Kim Jong-un, the Washington Post reports. This comes after a meeting between Putin and Kim promised closer relations between the two nations that find themselves on the periphery of civil society.
The Ukrainian revelation comes on the same day the North Korean government denied arming the Hamas terrorists who attacked Israeli civilians. According to Reuters, reports coming from Israel show Hamas fighters using the North Korean-made F-7 rocket-propelled grenades, something known in intelligence circles for years, but the source of the weapons is unspecified. The North Korean regime, however, denied the report through its state-owned media, calling it “a groundless and false rumour” and adding, “It is nothing but a bid to shift the blame for the Middle East crisis caused by (the United States’) wrong hegemonic policy onto a third country and thus evade the international criticism focused on the empire of evil,” it said.