Russia on Thursday strongly condemned North Korea’s actions in the intensifying standoff with South Korea and the United States, saying Pyongyang was showing a “categorically unacceptable” contempt of UN resolutions.
“For Russia, Pyongyang’s neglect of UN resolutions (on nuclear non-proliferation) is categorically unacceptable,”
foreign ministry spokesman Alexander lukashevich told reporters.
His comments were Russia’s sharpest criticism of Pyongyang in the current crisis. Until now, Moscow had urged restraint from all parties and warned that the general situation risked escalating out of control.