[size=15pt]Pyongyang aggravating situation is unacceptable – Moscow [/size]

North Korea’s intention to legally claim its nuclear status aggravates the situation, and blocks the prospects for the six-party talks, says the Russian Foreign Ministry.

“We have to state the escalation of tension on the Korean peninsula continues. The situation is extremely difficult,” the Ministry’s spokesperson Aleksandr Lukashevich said on Thursday.

Pyongyang’s announcement to legally secure a status of a state “that possesses nuclear weapons for defensive purposes,” may significantly aggravate or even “block the prospects for the resumption of the six-party talks,” the diplomat pointed out.

“For Russia – which is a member of United Nation’s Security Council – this is completely unacceptable ,” Lukashevich underlined.

“The situation cannot be resolved through escalation, ” he added.

Moscow has been “in a broad and intensive dialogue” with all its partners in the six-party talks: North Korea, South Korea, Japan, the US, and China. The forum is aimed at finding a diplomatic solution with Pyongyang to halt its nuclear weapons program.

“Dangerous manoeuvres and rhetoric” should be stopped as soon as possible, and conditions to resolve the six-party talks should be created, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. That is the only venue where problems regarding “the de-nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula can be addressed,” Moscow insists.

Pyongyang quit the talks in 2009, shortly before it carried out a second nuclear weapon test.

Relations between North and South Korea have been tense for over 60 years, since the end of World War II, which was followed by the division of the country.

The latest stand-off began after the North Korea launched a long-range rocket in December and carried out its third (since 2006) nuclear test on February 12. This was followed by a new set of UN sanctions against the republic approved on March 7.

Pyongyang, in response, stated it had the right to launch a preemptive nuclear strike on the US. Several days later - as the US began annual joint military drills with the South Korea – the North announced its withdrawal from the armistice ending the Korean War in 1953. The UN, however, said the document is still valid since it cannot be ended unilaterally. Shortly after that, the US deployed F-22 Raptor stealth fighters to the region.


http://rt.com/politics/korea-nuclear-moscow-talks-330/

Russia has condemned North Korea's actions in the intensifying standoff with South Korea and the United States.

Moscow has declared that North Korea is showing a "categorically unacceptable" contempt of UN resolutions.

"For Russia, Pyongyang's neglect of UN resolutions (on nuclear non-proliferation) is categorically unacceptable," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich told reporters, as cited by The Voice of Russia.

He added that North Korea’s actions "complicate, if not practically rule out the chances of resuming" six party talks to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula.

It emerged on Thursday that North Korea has deployed a missile to its east coast. Even though the missile has a “considerable” range, it would not capable of reaching the United States, according to South Korean defense officials.

Pyongyang's latest missile deployment has prompted the US to move its THAAD advanced missile defense system along with radar systems to a base on the Pacific Ocean island of Guam.

On Wednesday, the North Korean army said it had received approval to launch a “merciless” attack on the United States, including possible nuclear strikes



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Now when you have two big boys telling you to stop acting like a spoilt child, what the hell are you gonna do huh?

Well this puts China in a very big pickle. China will now look like even more of a complete fool if they do not disaffiliate themselves from NK ASAP. Russia being logical here, knows that they much like China will feel the extended effects of any such war more so than the US if it were to kick off. nuclear fallout will quickly creep across the border into Russia and China poising millions of their citizens instantly. It'll actually be wise of them to do the deed themselves at this point and take out NK' themselves now with a joint conventional assault, considering that the NK leadership has decided that they no longer will cooperate with even them (Russia & China) at this point.

bookface:

Now when you have two big boys telling you to stop acting like a spoilt child, what the hell are you gonna do huh?

Hopefully the spoilt child heeds advice before he & his household is blown to smithereens.

North Korea has nothing to lose by acting as a regional spoiler. Pyongyang's first assessment is that the larger neighborhood prefers that there be no disruption to the flow of commerce -- and this is a club that can be wielded not only against South Korea and Japan but against China and Russia as well. A North Korea that plunges the region into war would release flows of refugees crossing into China and Russia for sanctuary; it would jeopardize China's own economy, starting with the massive disruptions that any conflict would create; it would imperil Russian President Vladimir Putin's announced plans for a new "eastern vector" for the Russian economy, including the development of new pipelines and energy assets in the Far East.
The DPRK's assessment is that it has consistently been cheaper for the surrounding countries to pay Pyongyang off -- and to restrain the United States from trying to take action -- than to risk the damage that a more sustained military conflict would bring.

In the end, i suspect North Korea will eventually get what it wants from everyone.

bookface: North Korea has nothing to lose by acting as a regional spoiler. Pyongyang's first assessment is that the larger neighborhood prefers that there be no disruption to the flow of commerce -- and this is a club that can be wielded not only against South Korea and Japan but against China and Russia as well. A North Korea that plunges the region into war would release flows of refugees crossing into China and Russia for sanctuary; it would jeopardize China's own economy, starting with the massive disruptions that any conflict would create; it would imperil Russian President Vladimir Putin's announced plans for a new "eastern vector" for the Russian economy, including the development of new pipelines and energy assets in the Far East.
The DPRK's assessment is that it has consistently been cheaper for the surrounding countries to pay Pyongyang off -- and to restrain the United States from trying to take action -- than to risk the damage that a more sustained military conflict would bring.

In the end, i suspect North Korea will eventually get what it wants from everyone.

China will just shoot them as they attempted to cross the boarder into China.