SpaceWar.com reports: “The United States, Japan and the Republic of Korea are expressing concerns over developments in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the ‘deepening military cooperation between the DPRK and Russia,’ the U.S. State Department said Monday.
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Kritenbrink and Japan’s Director General Namazu Hiroyuki met Monday with ROK Vice Foreign Minister Cho Koo-rae as the three vowed to strengthen their cooperation.
‘Important conversations today with Japan Director-General Namazu and Vice Foreign Minister Cho,’ Kritenbrink wrote Monday in a post on X. ‘We discussed our nation’s close trilateral cooperation in addressing deeply concerning developments in the DPRK and the deepening cooperations between the DPRK and Russia.’
During their meeting, the three counterparts discussed the ‘deepening military cooperation between the DPRK and Russia, as well as developments in the DPRK’s unlawful weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs,’ which they called ‘deeply destabilizing’ and a ‘grave threat to regional and global security.’
Monday’s meeting comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed last month that Moscow had used a nuclear-capable weapon against Ukraine for the first time since its invasion nearly two years ago. Russia hit a Ukrainian aerospace plant with an experimental hypersonic missile just days after Ukraine fired U.S. long-range missiles after U.S. President Joe Biden gave Kyiv authorization to attack deeper into Russian territory…”
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