Pyongyang also warns F-16s provided by the West will be a “great step towards a nuclear war against Russia.”
“The decision is a desperate measure chosen by the confrontation maniacs against Russia, taken aback by repeated defeats of the Zelenskiy group’s counterattack. It goes to prove that the U.S. and the West remain unchanged in their sinister intention to bring a strategic defeat to Russia at any cost in the Ukrainian battlefield…The U.S. and the West, not awakened from the wild dream about ‘Russia’s strategic defeat’, are trying to reverse the war situation in Ukraine with the mere supply of fighters, but their attempts will inevitably expose themselves to the powerful retaliation of Russia…It is a matter of time that F-16 fighters, the U.S. and the West place their big hope on, are displayed as another exhibit at Russia’s victory museums…Nothing can block the advance of the brave Russian army and people out in defending justice and peace, and the U.S. and the West are doomed to ruin.” North Korean official media attribute the analysis to the Institute of International Studies of the DPRK (8/28/23)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is reported to be planning a trip to Russia to discuss, among other things, the sale of North Korean weapons to the Russians.