“No one knows how our retaliation and revenge will be completed,” she said.
The furious statement follows reports from Kyiv and Seoul that North Korea is sending its soldiers to fight alongside Russia in its war against Ukraine. Both countries said that some 10,000 troops have been deployed to Russia, with pro-Kremlin military bloggers allegedly having filmed the troops at a military base.
Pyongyang and Moscow have stepped up their military cooperation since North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a comprehensive strategic partnership treaty in June.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that North Korea supports Russia because of the cash.
“I think North Korea is very poor. They will send their people to the front. To be honest, we already spotted officers, technical personnel, I think, in temporarily occupied territories,” Zelenskyy told several reporters in Kyiv on Monday.
“I think they sent the officers because their officers would understand what was going on first and then send the contingent. Because how to manage them, how to command them? I’m talking about language. I think these are serious difficulties,” the Ukrainian president said.
