Cooperation Between China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia Threatens US Security: NATO Chief

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Nov. 7 said North Korea, China, and Iran are working together with Russia against Ukraine, posing threats to Europe and the United States.
In return for the military support, Rutte said Russia is likely to provide North Korea with its latest technological innovations, posing risks not only to the U.S. mainland and continental Europe but also to NATO partners in the Indo-Pacific, such as Japan and South Korea.
Rutte said North Korea’s actions illustrate the cooperation among Pyongyang, Moscow, Tehran, and Beijing, noting it would be a major topic of the European Political Community Summit in the Hungarian capital.
“He is right on this,“ Rutte said of Trump. ”You will not get there with the 2 percent.”
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, more countries have increased their military spending, with 18 NATO nations spending at least 2 percent of GDP on defense, according to Celeste Wallander, assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs.
Concerns were growing over the presence of North Korean troops in Russia. On Nov. 6, top diplomats of the Group of Seven democracies, as well as South Korea and New Zealand, condemned “in the strongest possible terms” the military cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow.