North Korea has condemned Israel’s use of violence against unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza describing what happened with them as “brutal massacres.”
Kim Yong-nam head of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of North Korea sent a message of sympathy to Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas with the state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper calling Israel’s actions as “bloody suppression”.
The newspaper said that Yong-nam in the message expressed deep condolences to the victims and their families.
“He vehemently denounced Israel for its brutal massacres and indiscriminate use of force against peaceful demonstrators demanding their legitimate rights.”
He affirmed North Korea’s unwavering support for and solidarity with the just cause of the Palestinian people and their struggle to build an independent state with east Jerusalem as its capital and obtain their inalienable legitimate rights.
North Korea backs Palestine in its dispute with Israel an occupying power financed and supported by the US regime.
When North Korea was largely propped up by the Soviet Union during the Cold War it regularly sent aid and weapons to Palestine.
During the 2014 Gaza war North Korea also condemned Israel.
The country’s foreign ministry then strongly denounced “Israel’s brutal killings of many defenseless Palestinians through indiscriminate military attacks on peaceable residential areas in Palestine.”
“They are unpardonable crimes against humanity” the ministry said.
