Putin Issues Stern Warning to North Korea Regarding Its Nuclear Threats

North Korea Risks Annihilation with Latest Threat

North Korea’s provocative military actions and threats have earned it a rebuke and threat from none other than Russia’s Vladimir Putin. While Obama has no credibility when it comes to world conflicts, Putin is feared and respected. The rebuke to Korea’s little tyrant Kim Jong Un no doubt has the short one trembling in his boots, as it well should. Comments suggesting that the Korean military would launch a “premptive and offensive nuclear strike” in response to the start of joint U.S.-South Korean war games on Monday elicited a clear warning from the Russian Foreign Ministry.

“We consider it to be absolutely impermissible to make public statements containing threats to deliver some ‘preventive nuclear strikes’ against opponents,” said the statement, as translated by the Russian TASS news agency. “Pyongyang should be aware of the fact that in this way the DPRK [North Korea] will become fully opposed to the international community and will create international legal grounds for using military force against itself in accordance with the right of a state to self-defense enshrined in the United Nations Charter.”

Part of the planned war games involved the U.S. and South Korea simulating strikes against North Korea’s nuclear facilities and special forces raids against Pyongyang leadership. Around 17,000 U.S. personnel and 300,000 South Korean personnel are participating in the ongoing eight-week war game. The troop levels represent about a one-third increase from last year’s similar war game.

North Korea’s sabre-rattling has reached a fever pitch in recent months. The pariah state carried out its fourth nuclear test in January and launched a rocket in violation of international sanctions in February. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper warned Congress in early February that North Korea had restarted its plutonium reactor and was poised to produce weapons-grade nuclear material within weeks.

In response to North Korean provocations, the United Nations security council voted unanimously last Thursday to pass a new round of sanctions against the country.

North Korea within the last week launched short range ballistic missiles into the sea, missiles with the capability of carrying a small nuclear warhead of so armed. While these are not nearly powerful enough to reach the U.S. mainland, they have the range to easily find South Korean and Japanese targets. And because Kim Jong Un is so unpredictable, it is unwise to discount what his actions will really be. And he certainly should fear no response from the Obama regime since it is all talk and no action. With Putin chiming in as well, Kim Jong Un should consider his options and decide for peace and conciliation unless he has a suicide wish. Somehow I think his first instinct is self-preservation.

Source: dailycaller.com