Putin decries pressure on N’Korea, says show of force by US, Japan & S’Korea could prove futile

Russian President Vladimir Putin has described the pressure on North Korea over its nuclear missile programme as futile warning that North Asia faces ‘large-scale conflict’.

Putin who says the show of force by US, Japan & S’Korea is “misguided and futile”, argued that only dialogue without precondition can resolve the crisis.

The Korean Peninsula is “balancing on the brink of a large-scale conflict”, Putin wrote in an article to be published on Friday before a summit of BRICS economies to be held in China on Sunday.

“Russia believes that the policy of putting pressure on Pyongyang to stop its nuclear missile programme is misguided and futile,” he wrote in the article sent to media in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – the BRICS member states.

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“The region’s problems should only be settled through a direct dialogue of all the parties concerned without any preconditions. Provocations, pressure and militarist and insulting rhetoric are a dead-end road”, he stated.

Hours ago, U.S. fighter jets and bombers conducted a show of force alongside Japanese and South Korean allies, days afterNorth Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan.

According to the U.S. military, American Marine Corps F-35B fighter jets based in Japan joined Air Force B-1B bombers from Guam on Wednesday for the first time, flying over parts of South Korea and practicing attack capabilities with South Korean aircraft.

The U.S. and South Korean planes released live weapons at the Pilsung training area, a bombing range in South Korea. The F-35 is the newest and most advanced aircraft in the U.S. military.

 

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