White House national security spokesman John Kirby said in a Thursday press briefing that North Korea is supplying arms to Russia's Wagner Group mercenaries, a firm related to Putin.
After months of making nebulous claims that North Korea is giving Russian forces tens of thousands of artillery shells—a claim both parties have denied—the Biden administration finally released specific claims on Thursday, claiming that Pyongyang had provided the Wagner group with arms.
Wagner is an infamous private military contractor whose founder is referred to in Western media as "Putin's chef" and who is rumoured to be connected to Vladimir Putin. War crimes in Ukraine and earlier on deployments in Syria have long been charged against Wagner operatives in the Western media.
"Wagner is searching around the world for arms suppliers to support its military operations in Ukraine," White House national security spokesman John Kirby said in a Thursday press briefing. "We can con...
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