OREANDA-NEWS  The United States will not hesitate to impose sanctions against the DPRK and Russia when necessary. This was stated by State Department spokesman Matthew Miller, assessing the visit of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to the republic, Yonhap news agency reports.

"Of course, it didn't look like Defense Minister [Sergei] Shoigu was in North Korea on vacation," the representative of the American department said.

He stressed that Washington had already imposed sanctions against Pyongyang and against persons helping Russia in the past. "We will not hesitate to do this in the future," Miller concluded.

Earlier, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that during the visit of the Russian delegation to North Korea, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu allegedly negotiated with the DPRK authorities on the supply of weapons to continue Russia's military operations in Ukraine.

"We see that Russia is desperately trying to enlist support for weapons wherever it can be found... We see this both in North Korea and in Iran, which has provided Russia with a lot of drones," he concluded.