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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

N. Korea Denies Exporting Weapons to Russia

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un holds the Fifth Enlarged Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in Pyongyang, North Korea in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on June 11, 2022. (KCNA via Reuters)

North Korea on Wednesday denied it was providing arms to Russia, state media said, weeks after the United States said Moscow was turning to Pyongyang to replenish its stocks depleted by invading Ukraine.

"We have never exported weapons or ammunition to Russia before and we will not plan to export them," an official at the defense ministry's General Bureau of Equipment said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

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