Russia Backs China’s Call To Stop N. Korea Nuke Tests In Exchange For Halt In US-South Korea Drills

IWB ^ | Pamela Williams

[davikkm]

This is the key to stopping this war. We must stop military exercises with South Korea. Then Russia and China can get North Korea in line. North Korea has not accepted these exercises from the very beginning.

We have to consider this and consider it now. There is not time to wait.

QUOTED FROM RT:

Russia has supported a Chinese initiative in the UNSC intended to stabilize the situation on the Korean peninsula. It calls on the North to refrain from missile and nuclear testing, while the US and South Korea should halt military drills in the area.

“Members of the [UN] Security Council have unanimously called upon DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] to stop missile and nuclear tests and to fulfil UNSC resolutions,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday following a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) session held in New York earlier on Friday.

The UNSC called for a political and diplomatic solution to the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula, the ministry added.

“In this context, the Russian Federation supported a Chinese proposal for a ‘double suspension’ (Pyongyang is to stop missile and nuclear tests and the US and South Korean militaries are to halt drills near North Korea) as a starting point for political negotiations.”

[WatchungEagle]

There is no reason have US troops in Korea 25 years after the end of the Cold War and and 60 something years after the end of the Korean War. Think about how crazy that is.

[caww]

Tell that to the S. Koreans.....the Korean war was never declared over...there has been no “end”......and as long as North Korea believes and promotes to their people they are still at war...then they are a threat to S. Korea whom we are allied with to protect when there is a threat...which there is.....