SEOUL: The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday (May 17) denied widespread allegations that Pyongyang is shipping weapons to Russia, calling the claim "absurd".
Kim Yo Jong looks on at the Metropole hotel during the second North Korea -US summit in Hanoi, Vietnam on Feb 28, 2019. SEOUL: The powerful sister of North Korea n leader Kim Jong Un on Friday denied widespread allegations that Pyongyang is shipping weapons to Russia , calling the claim"absurd".
But Kim Yo Jong said Pyongyang had"no intention to export our military technical capabilities to any country", according to a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency on Friday. The largely isolated North has recently bolstered military ties with Moscow, and Pyongyang thanked Russia last month for using its UN Security Council veto to block the renewal of a panel of experts that monitored international sanctions on Kim's regime.
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