Russia says hopes USA will not act unilaterally against North Korea

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters




Mon Apr 17, 2017 | 6:13am EDT

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that Moscow could not accept North Korea's "reckless nuclear actions" but said he hoped the United States would not take any unilateral action against Pyongyang.

Lavrov warned against anyone responding to North Korea's behaviour by "breaking international law."

In televised comments, he also said that Russia was ready to restore relations with Washington and would judge U.S. President Donald Trump's readiness to do the same by his statements. (Reporting by Polina Devitt; Writing by Maria Tsvetkova; Editing by Andrew Osborn)

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[dalton99a]

1. meaning, without Putin's permission

[Orrex]

2. That would be like invading an annexing a sovereign nation, for instance.

But only a real asshole of a country would do something like that.

[LudwigPastorius]

4. Indeed.

Now that the Trump Doctrine is that we shouldn't bother trying to hold our foreign policy up to a higher ethical and humanitarian standard, maybe the Russians feel like we've stolen their playbook.

Donald's Way is "we've got a lot of killers" and we're "not so innocent", so who gives a shit about international law.

If global instability were a stock, it would be a solid "buy" now.

[Bayard]

3. Russia is ready to restore relations with Washington?

What the heck is that supposed to mean? We had our sorry assed Secretary of State there last week, and Trump has never stopped having relations with Putin.