North Korea condemned the U.S. military action in Venezuela, which saw the capture and transport of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to New York following strikes on the South American country’s capital Caracas and other regions on Saturday.

A spokesperson for the DPRK foreign ministry called the U.S. intervention in Venezuela a “high-handedness act” that could lead to further instability amid the “already weakened regional situation,” the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Sunday evening.

The ministry issued the statement in response to a KCNA query about the U.S. “wildly violating the sovereignty of Venezuela,” according to state media.

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