SEOUL, December 23. /TASS/. The Foreign Ministry of North Korea rejected claims of alleged arms supplies to Russia, South Korea’s Yonhap​​​​ news agency reported citing the ministry’s statement.

"The Japanese media's false report that the DPRK offered munitions to Russia is the most absurd red herring, which is not worth any comment or interpretation," Yonhap quoted a ministry spokesman as saying in an English-language statement, published by the state-run news agency KCNA.

US National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby claimed on Thursday that North Korea has supplied weapons to Russia’s Wagner private military company and was planning new supplies. UN Secretary-General's Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at a briefing later in the day that the global organization had no information about alleged arms deliveries from North Korea.

Russia stressed on numerous occasions that its armed forces have no need to buy weapons from abroad for the special military operation in Ukraine, since the country's defense industry is coping with its tasks.