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North Korea condemns US sending battle tanks to Ukraine

Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, speaking at the National Emergency Prevention General Meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, in August 2022 [File: Korean Central News Agency via KNS/AFP]

The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un 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 “red line” and escalating a “proxy war” designed to destroy Moscow.

The comments on Friday by Kim Yo Jong underscored North Korea’s 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.

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