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China-Japan-Koreas
Russia Slams N. Korea Over Island Attack
2010-12-15
Russia on Monday criticized North Korea over the artillery attack on Yeonpyeong Island last month, brushing aside claims that it was a response to a preemptive strike by the South.
Better late than never. Perhaps the Russians would be ready to be useful for a change ...
"It was confirmed that a fatal artillery attack on a nation's territory deserves denouncement," said a statement the Russian Foreign Ministry issued Monday after Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met his North Korean counterpart Pak Ui-chun.

Russia, along with China, urged self-restraint on both Koreas after the North sank the Navy corvette Cheonan in March, but the Yeonpyeong shelling was apparently a provocation too far for Moscow.

Lavrov also expressed "deep concern" about the North's uranium enrichment project at Yongbyon and called on it to comply with UN Security Council resolutions 1718 and 1874, according to the statement.

On Nov. 23, when the North shelled Yeonyeong, Lavrov censured the North Korean attack in a press conference. Two days later he said South Korea's "firing drill is one thing and shelling a residential area is quite another. People died and that is most important."

"Russia has noted the facts objectively. We are doing our best to help Russia share views with us," Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan told reporters Tuesday.
Posted by:Steve White

#1  Mouth, Mouth,Mouth,Mouth and do nothing(I didn't get a "Harumph" outa that guy)
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2010-12-15 12:47  

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