North Korea's Foreign Ministry denied news reports about the country offering ammunition to Russia, and said that no arms deal had been concluded between Moscow and Pyongyang, and in return condemned the United States for providing Ukraine with lethal weapons, she said.
The Japanese newspaper "Tokyo Shimbun" earlier reported that North Korea shipped munitions, including artillery shells, to Russia by rail across their border last month, and that additional shipments are expected in the coming weeks.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs described what was published by the Japanese newspaper in this regard as extremely fallacious and forgery.
"Japanese media's false report that the DPRK provided munitions to Russia is heinous nonsense and does not deserve any comment or explanation," a ministry spokesman said, in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency on Thursday (Friday local time), using Korea's official name. North.
The White House confirmed on Thursday that Pyongyang had completed an initial arms shipment to a private Russian military company, the Wagner Group, to help support Russian forces in Ukraine.
The North Korean foreign ministry statement did not mention Wagner.
According to the White House, the Russian group received missiles and missiles for the infantry forces from North Korea, which Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of Wagner, denied, describing it as pure "chatter and speculation".
On the other hand, North Korea's spokesman said that it is the United States that "causes bloodshed and destruction in Ukraine by supplying it with various types of deadly weapons."