North Korea Condemns US Strikes against Yemen

A ship fires missiles at an undisclosed location, after US President Donald Trump launched military strikes against Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis on Saturday over the group's attacks against Red Sea shipping, in this screengrab obtained from a handout video released on March 15, 2025. US Central Command/Handout via REUTERS
A ship fires missiles at an undisclosed location, after US President Donald Trump launched military strikes against Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis on Saturday over the group's attacks against Red Sea shipping, in this screengrab obtained from a handout video released on March 15, 2025. US Central Command/Handout via REUTERS
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North Korea Condemns US Strikes against Yemen

A ship fires missiles at an undisclosed location, after US President Donald Trump launched military strikes against Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis on Saturday over the group's attacks against Red Sea shipping, in this screengrab obtained from a handout video released on March 15, 2025. US Central Command/Handout via REUTERS
A ship fires missiles at an undisclosed location, after US President Donald Trump launched military strikes against Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis on Saturday over the group's attacks against Red Sea shipping, in this screengrab obtained from a handout video released on March 15, 2025. US Central Command/Handout via REUTERS

North Korea condemned recent US strikes on Yemen as an act violating international law and a country's sovereignty and said such a move could never be justified in any way, the North's state media quoted on Tuesday its ambassador to Yemen as saying.

The large-scale US strikes were launched by President Donald Trump last week targeting Iran-aligned Houthis over the group's attacks on Red Sea shipping. The Houthi-run health ministry said the strikes killed at least 53 people including women and children.

The North Korean ambassador, Ma Dong Hui, who the KCNA state news agency said was also Pyongyang's envoy to Egypt, said Washington "indiscriminately" targeted civilians and property by mobilizing air and navy forces including an aircraft carrier.

"The military attack by the United States is a violent violation of the UN Charter and international law, and is a blatant infringement on the territorial sovereignty of another country that cannot be justified by any means," Ma said.

"I express grave concern about the illegal and reckless military actions by the United States, which is obsessed with realizing geopolitical ambitions ... and I strongly condemn and reject them."

The US Defense Department said the strikes hit more than 30 sites and involved fighter jets launched from a carrier in the Red Sea.



Russia, Ukraine Have Exchanged 175 Prisoners of War Each, Moscow Says

Freed Russian prisoners of war sit on a bus following a swap on February 5, 2025, at an undisclosed location. © Handout, Russian Defence Ministry, AFP / File picture
Freed Russian prisoners of war sit on a bus following a swap on February 5, 2025, at an undisclosed location. © Handout, Russian Defence Ministry, AFP / File picture
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Russia, Ukraine Have Exchanged 175 Prisoners of War Each, Moscow Says

Freed Russian prisoners of war sit on a bus following a swap on February 5, 2025, at an undisclosed location. © Handout, Russian Defence Ministry, AFP / File picture
Freed Russian prisoners of war sit on a bus following a swap on February 5, 2025, at an undisclosed location. © Handout, Russian Defence Ministry, AFP / File picture

Russia has conducted a prisoner exchange with Ukraine finalized during a telephone call between US President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin, Russia's Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

It said in a statement that 175 Ukrainian soldiers had been swapped for 175 Russian servicemen, Reuters reported.

Moscow had handed over an additional 22 heavily wounded Ukrainian prisoners in need of urgent medical care in what it described as a goodwill gesture.

Russian soldiers freed in the deal are in Belarus awaiting transit to Russia, it added