News Week
The White House has expressed concern that some of the most pressing foreign policy issues facing the United States in Europe, East Asia and the Middle East have begun to converge, as U.S. officials have accused North Korea of joining Iran in supplying weapons to Russia for its ongoing war in Ukraine.
National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby made the revelation Wednesday during a virtual press call, telling reporters that Pyongyang “is covertly supplying Russia’s war in Ukraine with a significant number of artillery shells, while obfuscating the shipments, by making it appear they are going to countries in the Middle East, and North Africa.”
Kirby also discussed previous assessments indicating that Iran had diverted drones to Russia that have already seen action in Ukraine, and may now also be in the process of sending surface-to-air missiles to be used in the conflict…
