North Korea on the 4th, regarding the United States capturing and extraditing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro through a military operation, said it was "another case that once again makes it clear the United States' thug-like and brutal nature that the international community has witnessed countless times for a long time."
A Spokesperson for North Korea's Foreign Ministry, in response to a question from a Korean Central News Agency reporter about "the United States carrying out a sovereignty-infringing act that ruthlessly tramples on Venezuela's independence," answered as follows, the agency said.
North Korea's Foreign Ministry said, "We denounce the United States' hegemonic act carried out in Venezuela as the most grave form of sovereignty infringement and a violent violation of the U.N. Charter and international law, whose basic purpose is the respect for sovereignty, noninterference in internal affairs, and territorial integrity, and we strongly condemn it."
It continued, "The international community should recognize the seriousness of the Venezuelan situation, which has had destructive consequences for safeguarding the identity of regional and international relations frameworks, and raise rightful voices of protest and condemnation against the United States' habitual violations of sovereignty."
North Korea and Venezuela have strengthened their ties on the anti-U.S. front for a long period since establishing diplomatic relations in 1974.