NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said Thursday he wanted to discuss with US President-elect Donald Trump the “threat” posed by strengthening ties between Russia and North Korea.
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“I look forward to sitting down with President Trump and seeing how we are going to collectively ensure that we face this threat,” he said upon his arrival at the summit of the European Political Community, which brings together around forty leaders in Budapest.
The new head of NATO was particularly concerned about the rapprochement between Russia and North Korea, Iran and China.
“Russia must pay for this. One of the things it’s doing is delivering technology to North Korea, which now threatens the future, the American continent, continental Europe, but also our partners in the Indo-Pacific,” he said. -he affirmed in front of the press, emphasizing that these were “dangerous developments”.
North Korea’s role “illustrates how these countries work together, China, North Korea, Russia and of course Iran. And it is increasingly a threat, not only for the European NATO countries but also for the United States,” he stressed.
Russia and North Korea have grown significantly closer since Moscow launched its assault on Ukraine in February 2022.
Pyongyang is accused by the West of supplying quantities of shells and missiles to the Russian army in its conflict with Ukraine, in addition to thousands of soldiers sent to Russian soil.
According to Washington, of the 10,000 who entered Russia, up to 8,000 “were deployed in the Kursk region” where Ukraine launched an offensive and occupied part of the territory.
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