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| Vladimir Putin warns world faces 'global catastrophe' over North Korea |
| 2017-09-05 |
| [CNN] Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that the escalating crisis over North Korea's weapons program risks developing into a "global catastrophe" with mass casualties. But Putin, speaking in China on Tuesday, cautioned against "military hysteria" and said that the only way to resolve the crisis was through diplomacy. He warned that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has calculated that the survival of his regime depends on its development of nuclear weapons. Kim had seen how western intervention in Iraq had ended in the overthrow of Saddam Hussein after which the country was ravaged by war, Putin warned, and Kim was determined not to suffer the same fate. "Saddam Hussein rejected the production of weapons of mass destruction, but even under that pretense, he was destroyed and members of his family were killed," Putin said. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 Negative tariff Thing. Stop giving then aid. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-09-05 22:56 |
| #7 So Pakistan got nuclear bomb tech from China and suddenly decided to shelter Bin Laden. In a world with non-retarded patriotic american leadership, that's worthy of a 100% tariff right there. IMHO. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2017-09-05 16:57 |
| #6 If China can go in and clean their fingerprints off Nork Nook tech before anyone else gets there, they'll be fine. China would have to deal with Pakistan's A.Q. Khan . He got nuclear technology blueprints from China. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-09-05 16:34 |
| #5 The only country getting attacked will be North Korea. Nothing else is worth it, and there are no secret alliances. If China can go in and clean their fingerprints off Nork Nook tech before anyone else gets there, they'll be fine. |
| Posted by: gorb 2017-09-05 15:16 |
| #4 Given that Putin considers the collapse of the Soviet Union the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century, this might not be such a bad thing. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2017-09-05 14:25 |
| #3 Hussein had been a Russian client... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-09-05 13:42 |
| #2 Well Gaddafi gave up his nukes, see what Hildabeast and Obean did to him. Not a good precedent setting move. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-09-05 09:23 |
| #1 "Saddam Hussein rejected the production of weapons of mass destruction, but even under that pretense, he was destroyed and members of his family were killed," Putin said. Such short memories. Vlad should speak to some of his United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) inspectors. One Russian colonel in the UNSCOM office comes to mind. Perhaps the colonel could explain to Vlad the actual thinking and facts at the time. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-09-05 08:18 |