American Allies and Adversaries Urge Caution on North Korea
"Together with China, Russia offered a very reasonable plan providing for the ‘double freeze.’ Kim Jong-un freezes any nuclear tests, any ballistic missile launches, while the U.S. and South Korea freeze large-scale military exercises, which are constantly used by North Korea as an excuse to conduct tests." Russian experts worry
that while the United States is unlikely to launch an all-out military attack on North Korea, it could make a limited strike.
"If the Americans apply military force against the D.P.R.K., they will clearly lose whatever political support Moscow
and Beijing have provided so far for U.S. policy toward North Korea," Mr. Batyuk told Kommersant, a Russian newspaper, using the initials for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the formal name of the North.
He said that Russia, which last weekend joined the United States
and China in voting at the United Nations Security Council for severe new sanctions against Pyongyang, did not accept North Korea as a nuclear power.
11, 2017
LONDON — World leaders expressed alarm on Friday at the bellicose language emanating from North Korea and the United States,
but also some support for President Trump, as they sought to allay their citizens’ fears of a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula.
Malcolm Turnbull said that We stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the United States,
This, warned Vladimir I. Batyuk, of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies in Moscow, would shatter the united front
that Russia, China and the United States displayed in the sanctions vote at the United Nations.
Lavrov said that Talk of the need to carry out a pre-emptive strike at North Korea, Pyongyang’s talk of the need
to strike at Guam island at the U.S. military base, this has been continual, and we are very worried by this,
