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The US White House released a satellite image of North Korea delivering weapons to a Russian mercenary group.
North Korea has been strongly denying the facts so far, but this is a lie and presented evidence.
Correspondent Kim Jong-won from New York.
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These are two satellite images released by the White House.
One picture was taken at Hassan Station in Maritime Province, Russia on November 18 last year, and the White House explained that it was a scene of a Russian five-car train moving to North Korea.
Another picture was taken a day later near Tumangang Station in North Korea, and a container was loaded onto an empty train.
The White House said the train had returned to Russia, and that it was a picture of North Korea providing weapons and ammunition, including rockets and missiles, to the Russian mercenary group Wagner.
North Korea strongly denied the claims of arms sales by the US government and Japanese media last month, but the White House refuted it by presenting a photo.
[John Kirby / White House National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator: It is expected that Wagner will continue to receive North Korean weapons.
We strongly condemn North Korea's actions and urge it to immediately stop supplying weapons to Wagner.]
Kirby's coordinator has designated the Wagner group as an international criminal organization, and next week will impose extensive additional sanctions on the Wagner group as well as organizations that support it. He said he would do it.
The White House said it shared the satellite images released today (21st) with the UN Security Council Sanctions Committee on North Korea, and said it would continue to raise issues at the UN Security Council regarding North Korea's arms trade.
The Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that all arms trades with North Korea are in violation of UN Security Council sanctions resolutions, and that it is in close communication with the United States.
(Video coverage: Lee Sang-wook, video editing: Jung Yong-hwa)