Seoul [South Korea], January 6 (ANI): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday expressed issues over potential cooperation between Russia and North Korea, highlighting the potential of Moscow sharing superior house and satellite tv for pc know-how with Pyongyang, based on a report by Yonhap News Agency.
Speaking at a joint press convention in Seoul after discussions with South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul, Blinken warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to be on the verge of reversing lengthy standing insurance policies by accepting North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme.
“We have reasons to believe that Moscow intends to share advanced space and satellite technology to Pyongyang. Putin may be close to reversing a decadeslong policy by accepting DPRK’s (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) nuclear weapons programme,” Blinken stated in a joint press convention.
“That concern is very much a focus, not only for the United States, but also Korea and Japan,” he added.
The remarks by Blinken got here as North Korea fired a suspected hypersonic missile into the East Sea on Monday, forward of US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, Yonhap reported.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) reported detecting the launch of a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) from the Pyongyang space round midday. The missile travelled roughly 1,100 kilometres earlier than touchdown within the sea.
Although the missile’s flight vary was under the standard 3,000 to five,500 kilometres lined by IRBMs, a JCS official famous that it appeared to share options with North Korea’s intermediate-range hypersonic missiles examined in January and April final 12 months.
Notably, Blinken is on a go to to South Korea, Japan, and France from January 4-9.
Earlier within the week, the US Department of State, in an official assertion, stated, “The Secretary will discuss how the United States and the ROK can strengthen key efforts to promote a free, open, and prosperous Indo-Pacific, as well as trilateral efforts with Japan.””In Japan, Secretary Blinken will meet with senior Japanese government officials to review the tremendous progress the US-Japan alliance has made over the past few years. Secretary Blinken will reaffirm the importance of the alliance in addressing a range of bilateral, regional, and global issues and continue to build on the momentum of US-Japan-ROK trilateral cooperation,” the assertion added. (ANI)