The head of the DPRK Foreign Ministry Department for International Organizations, Cho Chol-soo, also criticized the UK, which sent depleted uranium shells and cruise missiles with a range of more than 250 km to Kiev.
TOKYO, November 14. /tass/. The United States is trampling on peace and stability in Europe, prolonging the conflict in Ukraine and supplying Kiev with weapons prohibited by international law, including cluster bombs and depleted uranium shells. This was stated by the head of the Department of the DPRK Foreign Ministry for International Organizations Cho Chul Su.
"The United States is still supplying lethal weapons and means to the front of Ukraine, including cluster bombs and depleted uranium shells, the use of which is completely prohibited by international legal norms," the Korean Central Telegraph Agency quoted him as saying. "Thus, [they] are deliberately violating and trampling on peace and stability in Europe," Cho Chul-soo added.
He also criticized the United Kingdom, which, like the United States, "supplied the Kiev authorities with depleted uranium shells, cruise missiles with a range of more than 250 km, including Storm Shadow, and many of the latest anti-tank guns, wanting to delay the situation in Ukraine."
The main source of threats
The diplomat of the People's Republic called the Group of Seven "the main source of threat to global peace and security, the main obstacle to the establishment of a just international order." According to Cho Chol-soo, the G7 is "a confrontational group of violators and tramplers of peace and stability, provoking conflicts and armed clashes." "The Group of Seven is a legacy of the Cold War and should be disbanded immediately, this will be the first step towards resolving the current international crisis and returning calm to the planet," he emphasizes.
"Considerable harm to global peace and security" was also caused by other countries of the informal association. As the diplomat explained, they are conducting exercises with South Korea and Japan, sending ships and patrol planes to the Asia-Pacific region, including the Korean Peninsula region, thereby contributing to the US initiative to create an "Asian version of NATO."
In addition, Japan, which chairs the G7 this year, is called a "source of concern". According to Cho Chol-soo, Tokyo is striving to implement "the nefarious plan to transform the country into a military power."
Russia's position on cluster munitions
Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum, said that the supply of new weapons to Ukraine, including cluster munitions, ammunition with depleted uranium, will not change the situation at the front and only lead to a prolongation of the conflict. He recalled that "quite recently, the US administration believed that the use of cluster munitions was a war crime, they publicly said so." Now the United States itself supplies cluster munitions to the combat zone in Ukraine, Putin noted.
In turn, the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov called the US decision to supply the Kiev regime with depleted uranium shells "very bad news" and recalled that the use of their analogues by NATO forces in Yugoslavia had "very sad consequences, recorded even by international organizations," including the growth of cancer sufferers.
