U.S. provoked North Korea to fire missile, says Russia

[Miles Archer]

U.S. provoked North Korea to fire missile, says Russia

The U.S. and South Korea are to blame for North Korea’s latest missile launch over Japan, and further sanctions on the regime will not ameliorate the situation, Russia said Tuesday.

In defiance of U.N. resolutions banning its missile testing and fresh international sanctions drafted by the U.S., North Korea carried out another missile test on Tuesday morning, the fourth in as many days, this time directly over Japan for the first time. The regime has already traded barbs with President Donald Trump due to its repeated missile testing and expanding range, including a direct threat made at U.S. pacific territory Guam.

Anticipating more of the same to follow, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told journalists on Tuesday that U.S. actions were pushing the regime toward more tests, not halting it, state news agency Itar-Tass reported.

“If we go by how colleagues from the U.S. and other western countries have acted in the past, then of course we can expect new steps towards tightening the sanctions, but this will not solve the problem,” Ryabkov said. “It is now obvious to everyone that the resources for influencing North Korea with sanctions have run out.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/us-provoked-north-korea-to-fire-missile-says-russia/

[Igel]

1. Oooh ...

Does that mean Lithuania can fire missiles over Russia because of Zapad 2017?

Or maybe Ukraine over the Crimea?

Putin's reasoning applied close to home probably doesn't look so hot to himself.

[Wounded Bear]

2. The evil west...