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| Russia demands an answer from the United States on the question of nuclear weapons in Asia |
| 2024-06-01 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Moscow demands that Washington directly answer the question about plans to deploy nuclear weapons in Asian countries. This was stated on May 31 by Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Anna Evstigneeva at a meeting of the Security Council of the world organization. She noted that Russia continues to be concerned about conflicting signals about the so-called strengthening of interaction between the countries of Northeast Asia, Japan and South Korea with the United States in the nuclear field. “We demand that the US delegation directly answer the question regarding its intentions regarding the possible deployment of its nuclear weapons on the territory of Washington’s allies and assistance in their development of their own,” Evstigneeva said. As Regnum reported, the United States is encouraging Japan to blame Russia for nuclear instability, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on May 1. She recalled that it was Washington that 79 years ago atomic bombed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed hundreds of thousands of people. In turn, the administrations of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which suffered from US nuclear bombing in 1945, sent a protest to the American authorities because of tests to monitor the condition of nuclear warheads that took place at a nuclear test site in Nevada. US actions, including a recent nuclear test in Nevada, are forcing North Korea to increase its preparedness for nuclear deterrence, a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said. He emphasized that the United States, being the only state in the world that has used nuclear weapons, does not have the right to point out the nuclear threat allegedly emanating from other countries. |
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