SEOUL, November 18. /TASS/. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stated that the United States and the West are using Ukraine as a "strike force" against Russia, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Monday.

"We need to consider the war [of the West] against Russia, in which the United States and the West use Ukraine as a strike force, as a war aimed at increasing their practical combat experience and expansion of the scale of their global military intervention," the North Korean leader said addressing the 4th Conference of Battalion Commanders and Political Instructors of the Korean People's Army (KPA).

"As of today, the war merchants continue providing military assistance to Ukraine and Israel, and carry on with their support of the war," Kim Jong Un noted.

"Therefore, more and more countries are getting involved, instability is on the rise that can lead to World War III, and the global situation is approaching the dangerous threshold," he added.