Russia is “deeply concerned” by the escalation of tensions over North Korea, the Kremlin said on Friday, after US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un exchanged stinging barbs.
“Moscow is deeply concerned by an escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula related to an exchange of rather rude statements replete with threats,” President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
“Moscow still calls on all interested parties to display restraint so as not to provoke this escalation even further,” Peskov said, reiterating Russia’s position that the problem surrounding the North’s nuclear programme should be settled through negotiations only.