5 minutes agoPutin Warns of North Korea War
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)Russian President Vladimir Poutin called on the international community to refrain after the North Korea announcement of a six nuclear test, which creates a real threat in the region. “During a telephone conversation with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Putin called for restraint and a calm and balanced response and underlined that problems of the Korean peninsula [...]
“During a telephone conversation with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Putin requested restraint and a calm and balanced response and underlined that problems of the Korean peninsula should be solved only through political and diplomatic routes”, according to a Kremlin communiqué.
This test by genus undermines the world regime for non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, violates UN Security Council resolutions and international law, and creates a real threat to regional peace and stability”, Putin stressed, quoted in the communiqué.
The Russian president also held a telephone conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The two leaders expressed much concern over the situation on the Korean peninsula and underlined the need not to allow the situation to turn into chaos”, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
The two leaders called on all respective sides for restraint and to seek a solution only through political and diplomatic routes, underlining that a nuclearisation of the peninsula was unacceptable”, according to Peskov.
