NEW YORK, UN. Oct 31 (Interfax) - The West, including the United States, seeks to justify the readiness to send NATO forces to Ukraine with unfounded allegations of North Korean troops' deployment to the special military operation zone, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya said at a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine.
"A series of similar allegations about the transfer of DPRK soldiers to the Ukrainian front should not surprise anyone. These cases have only one thing in common, these are mere assertions and in the absence of any convincing evidence," Nebenzya said.
"Today's show is being performed to achieve one goal only, to justify post factum their own decision to send NATO troops" to Ukraine, he said.
"I would like to stress that Russia's cooperation with the DPRK in both military and other areas is in line with international law and does not violate it. It is not aimed against third countries and poses no threat to other states of the region nor to the international community," Nebenzya said.
"Concealing the presence of NATO soldiers and NATO specialists on the territory controlled by the Kiev regime is simply no longer possible," while the United States and its allies seek "to help the Zelensky regime by harnessing NATO's entire military and intelligence potential," he said.
"Today's Western performance in the Security Council" aims to cajole South Korea into more active military-technical cooperation with Kiev and to induce it "to supply Ukraine with highly demanded lethal weapons," he said.
"We hope that our South Korean colleagues will be wise enough not to fall for this trick," Nebenzya said, adding that Russia has been trying to safeguard the prerequisites "for resuming traditionally good-neighborly relations between Moscow and Seoul."