North Korea says cooperation with Russia ‘natural’, slams South Korea’s Yoon as ‘diplomatic idiot’
- North Korea slammed South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol for criticising its cooperation with Moscow following Kim Jong-un’s Russia visit
- US and South Korean officials have expressed concern that Russia could be trying to acquire ammunition from North Korea for the war in Ukraine
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Without addressing the worries about a possible weapons deal with Russia, KCNA said it’s “quite natural” and a “legitimate right” for neighbouring countries to keep close ties with each other.
“No one in the world would lend an ear to the hysteric fit of puppet traitor Yoon Suk-yeol, who is only wearing disgraceful ill fames of ‘political immature’, ‘diplomatic idiot’ and ‘incompetent chief executive’,” KCNA said. “It’s self-evident that such a guy with a trash-like brain cannot understand the profound and enormous meaning of the development of [North Korea]-Russia friendly relations.”
Koo Byoungsam, a spokesman for South Korea’s Unification Ministry, said the KCNA insults demonstrated North Korea’s “substandard system that lacks basic etiquette and common sense.”
Since taking office last year, Yoon, a conservative former prosecutor, has sought to strengthen South Korea’s military and security alliance with the US.