North Korea calls Ukrainians \u2018lunatics\u2019<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\nLast week, Ukraine\u2019s Vladimir Zelensky accused North Korea of having dispatched a military contingent to support Russian troops in the hostilities. On Monday, the same concerns were voiced by South Korea, which summoned the Russian ambassador to Seoul and \u201cstrongly called for the immediate withdrawal of North Korean troops and [to] stop relevant cooperation\u201d<\/em> with Pyongyang while threatening to \u201crespond with every possible means\u201d<\/em> if this does not happen.<\/p>\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said that North Korea is Russia\u2019s \u201cclose neighbor\u2026 we are developing relations in all areas.\u201d<\/em> He added that the cooperation between the two \u201cis our sovereign right, and no one should be worried, because cooperation is not directed against third countries\u2026 We see a lot of contradictory information,\u201d<\/em> he said, referring to Seoul\u2019s accusations and the Pentagon\u2019s claims that it was unable to confirm them at the time.<\/p>\nNorth Korea has dismissed claims it has sent troops to Russia as \u201cgroundless and stereotype rumors,\u201d<\/em> adding that the accusations were aimed at \u201csmearing the image of the DPRK and undermining the legitimate friendly and cooperative relations between sovereign states.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pyongyang has previously rejected the accusation, while the Kremlin called reports on the matter \u201ccontradictory\u201d North Korean service members have arrived in Russia, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has claimed, adding, however, that Washington so far has no idea what their plans in the country are. Pyongyang previously rejected the accusation, while the Kremlin has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3341,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions\/3341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}