Matthew Miller
The Bidden administration said on Monday that it will be 'monitoring very closely' the outcome of upcoming meetings between North Korean and Russian leaders, calling them both "international pariahs," TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
"Vladimir Putin’s actions have cemented him as an international pariah," State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told a daily briefing when responding to TURAN's questions.
Miller's comments came as Kim Jong Un was reportedly on his armored train headed to meet Putin in Russia. U.S. officials believe that Pyongyang and Moscow have discussed a potential arms deal and those talks may continue when Kim visits Russia.
Putin, Miller reminded, has been charged by the ICC with war crimes, was not able to travel to the most recent meeting of the BRICS because of that decision to charge him, and did not show up at the G20 meeting, "no doubt because he didn’t want to hear from a number of the countries there about the results and the consequences of his actions"
The spokesperson also said that Washington is set to impose new sanctions against North Korea if the country ships arms to Russia.
Any shipment of weapons from North Korea to Russia would violate multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions, he added. “We of course have aggressively enforced our sanctions against entities that fund Russia’s war effort and we will continue to enforce those sanctions and will not hesitate to impose new sanctions, if appropriate.”
Alex Raufoglu
Politics
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