North Korea blames U.S. in 1st response to Russian invasion of Ukraine

North Korea's Foreign Ministry on Saturday night blamed the United States and defended Russia in Pyongyang's first response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, by way of posting on its website an article by a North Korean researcher.In the article, Ri Ji Song of the Society for International Politics Study wrote, "The root cause of the Ukrainian crisis also lies in the high-handedness and arbitrariness of the U.S., which has held on solely to the unilateral sanction and pressure while pursuing only global hegemony and military supremacy in disregard of the legitimate demand of Russia for it…READ FULL ARTICLE