The deputy minister told the Russian diplomat that Russia “ignored the truth and unconditionally defended North Korea.” Seoul expressed concern that Moscow's statements could worsen Korean-Russian relations.
On January 31, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced increasing tension on the Korean Peninsula due to the actions of the United States and its allies.
There, in particular, they noted that the statements of the President of the Republic of Korea, Yun Seok-yeol, who called the DPRK supposedly “the only country in the world” that has legislated the possibility of launching a “preventive nuclear strike,” are frankly tendentious. Moscow recalled that the United States was the only one in history to actually use nuclear weapons.