Moscow defends that the agreement with Pyongyang seeks to stop the escalation of the conflict between the two Koreas

MADRID 4 Nov. () –

Russia’s special envoy to the UN, Anna Evstigneeva, defended this Monday that the strategic partnership agreement with Pyongyang seeks to avoid a worsening of the conflict on the Korean peninsula and affirms that its role is to “stabilize”, and not the contrary.

“The agreement signed on June 19 is intended to play a stabilizing role in the region based on the principle of indivisible security, as well as reduce the risk of war on the peninsula,” he stated.

However, he regretted that South Korea is already beginning to get involved in the “US-driven adventure of supplying Western weapons to the Ukrainian authorities.” “We regret that our long-standing friends and partners in Seoul are rapidly losing their independence under pressure from the United States while endangering their own national interests,” he said.

“Apparently they have also started to get involved in increasing the supply of Western weapons to kyiv, which, given its combat losses, really needs them,” he said during a Security Council meeting.

“We ask our South Korean colleagues to come to their senses and not take this extremely dangerous path, which will not lead to anything good for Seoul. Especially since, according to South Korean investigations, a certain majority of the country’s population does not support the shipment of weapons to Ukraine,” he stated, as reported by the Russian news agency TASS.

In this sense, he lamented that “by pursuing an aggressive policy on the Korean Peninsula, the Americans are simultaneously solving their own problems of mobilizing allies against Russia.” “This says a lot about the true motives of the United States in relation to the region,” he said.

On October 24, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol stated that Seoul could reconsider supplying lethal weapons to Ukraine “from a more flexible position.”