MISSILE ACTIVITIES: Russia reacts to calls by US to cut ties with North Korea

A call on all countries to severe ties with North Korea over its continued missile activities made by the US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley has been rejected by Russia.

Speaking moments after Haley made the call, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov while fielding questions from journalists in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, said; “We perceived this negatively.”

The call by Haley was made a day after defiant North Korea fired it’s first missile since September 15 which it claimed could reach mainland USA.

Haley sternly warned North Korea’s leadership saying it would be “utterly destroyed” if war were to break out.

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While speaking at an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting, Haley said; “We have never sought war with North Korea, and still today we do not seek it. If war does come, it will be because of continued acts of aggression like we witnessed yesterday … And if war comes, make no mistake, the North Korean regime will be utterly destroyed.”

The US Department of Defense after an initial assessment of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) fired by North Korea said the missile is capable of carrying nuclear warheads and could reach the mainland of the United States.

Last month President Donald Trump said that Russia was hurting US efforts to disarm North Korea of its nuclear weapons and its move to reject and condemn calls to cut ties with Pyongyang proves Trump right.

 

 

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