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     Igor Korotchenko is a Russian military expert. He recently suggested on state-owned TV that the Kremlin plans to attack U.S. ships with nuclear weapons.
     Late last month, U.S. officials revealed that President Joe Biden has since allowed Ukraine to use American-made weapons to fight against Russia’s attacks or planned attacks in the Kharkiv region. The U.S. weapons are only allowed to be used to defend Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. Kyiv is not to use American-provided long-range missiles.
     Korotchenko recently said on state-owned TV that “In my opinion, there is only one adequate, fast and effective response to the increased strikes against the territory of the Russian Federation with American long-range weapons, since Biden and [U.S. national security adviser Jake] Sullivan have given the green light and Ukraine’s Armed Forces will carry it out: total destruction of all electrical generation in Ukraine.”
     Korotchenko then mentioned that Russian warships conducted drills in the Atlantic Ocean on their way to Cuba, as reported by the Russian Defense Ministry. The Russian ministry said that a Russian navy ship and Moscow’s Kazan nuclear-powered submarine conducted the exercise to simulate a missile strike on a fleet of enemy ships.

     The Russian warships are scheduled to be in Havana from Wednesday until this upcoming Monday. This was announced by the Cuban Foreign Ministry. The Cuban ministry said that none of the warships are carrying nuclear weapons.” They claimed that the warships do “not represent a threat to the region.” Cuban officials called their relations with Russia “historically friendly.”
     Korotchenko said, “Now, about the arrival of our ships and submarines to Cuba, it was officially stated that the Kazan is the only sub that came there, as part of a naval group of warships of the Northern Fleet. In reality, we can guess that Kazan wasn’t the only one, but there were a few Russian multipurpose nuclear subs in different parts of the Atlantic Ocean, carrying out their tasks.”
     Korotchenko continued, “These tasks are clear: countering American aircraft carrier strike groups. Of course, if a strike is carried out, as it was stated, several hundred kilometers away, against an American aircraft carrier strike group, this strike would be done with special ordnance for maximum effectiveness, speed and reliability.”
     Evgeny Popov is a Russian-State TV host. He chimed in, “Special ordnance means nuclear weapons.” The host of the 60 Minut show is Olga Skabeyeva. She added, “Is this the new terminology so we don’t scare people?…Friends, this is not a nuclear war, but a special war!”
     On Wednesday of this week, Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh said of the Russian warships in Cuba, “We’ve been tracking the Russians’ plans for this. This is not a surprise. We’re always, constantly going to monitor any foreign vessels operating near U.S. territorial waters. We of course take it seriously, but these exercises don’t pose a threat to the United States.”
     Earlier on the Russian TV show, Popov accused the U.S. of illegally occupying Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. In reality, Cuba has been leasing a naval base in Guantanamo Bay to the U.S. since 1903.
     Popov said, “We again remind you: there is an occupied part of Cuba. This territory is called Guantanamo, “They excuse it by saying they rented it for $1 from the Cuban government at one point. We know, these are just fairy tales of the Vienna Woods. This is a real occupation of a sovereign nation! This territory is decent, with good military infrastructure that could be of good use to the Russian Federation for its base or at least logistics facilities.”
     In 1934, the cost to rent the Guantanamo base was set at roughly four thousand dollars a year, according to The Washington Post.

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     NATO is worried about support Russia could provide for North Korea’s (N.K.) missile and nuclear programs. The alliance’s head mentioned this on Tuesday as Russian President Vladimir Putin began his first trip to the reclusive nuclear-armed country in 24 years.
     Putin is on a state visit for talks with N.K. leader Kim Jong Un. He vowed to deepen trade and security ties and to support the North against the U.S., a close ally of its bitter rival South Korea.
     The U.S. has accused N.K. of supplying “dozens of ballistic missiles and over eleven thousand containers of munitions to Russia” for use in Ukraine.
     Jens Stoltenberg is the NATO Secretary-General. He told a joint press briefing after talks with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Russia’s war in Ukraine was being propped up by China, North Korea and Iran, who all hope to see the Western alliance fail.
     Stoltenberg said, “We are of course also concerned about the potential support that Russia provides to North Korea when it comes to supporting their missile and nuclear programs”.
     Stoltenberg said that this and China’s support for Russia’s war economy showed how security challenges in Europe were linked to Asia. He added that next month’s NATO summit in Washington would see a further strengthening of the alliance’s partnerships with Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan. Stoltenberg said that there needed to be “consequences” at some stage for China.
     Stoltenberg continued that “They cannot continue to have normal trade relationships with countries in Europe and at the same time fuel the biggest war we have seen in Europe since the Second World War.”
     Stoltenberg mentioned that it was too early to say what those consequences might be, “but it has to be an issue that we need to address because to continue as we do today is not viable.”
     On Monday of this week, White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby said that Washington was watching the North Korea-Russia relationship “very, very closely” because there “could be some reciprocity … that could affect security on the Korean Peninsula.”
     On Tuesday of this week, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre told a news briefing that deepening Russia-North Korea cooperation was “a trend that should be of great concern to anyone interested in maintaining peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula.”

     Jean-Pierre noted that a statement from Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping from a May summit had stressed political and diplomatic means as the only way to resolve the Korean issue. She added that “We hope this is a message that Putin will convey to Kim in their discussion.”

     At the briefing with Stoltenberg, Blinken said Putin’s Pyongyang trip was a sure sign of his “desperation” to strengthen relations with countries that can support his war in Ukraine.
      Blinken added that China’s support had enabled Russia to maintain its defense industrial base. China is supplying seventy percent of Moscow’s machine tool imports and ninety percent of the microelectronics. He added that “That has to stop.”
     Kurt Campbell is the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Last week. Last week he said that Washington was concerned by what Russia would give North Korea in return for weapons Pyongyang has supplied.
     He questioned whether it would be “Hard currency? Is it energy? Is it capabilities that allow them to advance their nuclear or missile products? We don’t know. But we’re concerned by that and watching carefully.”

     Bonnie Jenkins is the U.S. Under Secretary of State and the top U.S. arms control official. She has said that she believes North Korea is keen to acquire fighter aircraft, surface-to-air missiles, armored vehicles, ballistic missile production equipment or materials, and other advanced technologies from Russia.

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