{"id":324826,"date":"2017-09-06T14:13:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T13:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/putin-rejects-more-sanctions-on-north-korea\/"},"modified":"2017-09-06T14:13:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T13:13:33","slug":"putin-rejects-more-sanctions-on-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/putin-rejects-more-sanctions-on-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Rejects More Sanctions on North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>After UN Ambassador Nikki Haley asked the security council to pass the \u201cstrongest possible\u201d sanctions against North Korea which was \u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-09-04\/time-half-measures-over-haley-tells-un-kim-begging-war\">begging for war\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>following the isolated nation\u2019s sixth nuclear test which took place over the weekend, Russia President Vladimir Putin has hinted that Russia may \u2013 and most likely will \u2013 use its Security Council veto power to stop any further sanctions from being implemented.<\/p>\n<p>Putin, who is in China for a meeting of leaders from the BRICS countries, said that sanctions at this point would be \u201ccounter-productive\u201d and that US threats of military action could trigger\u00a0<strong>\u201ca global catastrophe and a huge loss of human life,<\/strong>\u201d according to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-northkorea-missiles-putin-sanctions\/putin-calls-tougher-north-korea-sanctions-senseless-warns-of-global-catastrophe-idUSKCN1BG0OG\">Reuters<\/a>. Some US diplomats have quietly agreed with the Russian leader, noting that if the barrage of already imposed sanctions on Pyongyang hasn\u2019t changed the country\u2019s behavior, then any incremental actions would likely have no impact either.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmi-gold-silver.com\/blog\/buy-old-us-gold-coins\/?utm_source=LRC_Text_Ad&amp;utm_campaign=buy_old_us_coins\">Time to buy old US gold coins<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2017\/09\/05\/north%20korea%20sanctions_0.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"719\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Putin added that Pyongyang wouldn\u2019t halt its nuclear tests until it \u201cfelt secure.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/402020-putin-russia-speaks-brics\/\">More details:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cRamping up military hysteria in such conditions is senseless; it\u2019s a dead end,\u201d he added. \u201cIt could lead to a global, planetary catastrophe and a huge loss of human life. There is no other way to solve the North Korean nuclear issue, save that of peaceful dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>His remarks followed similar statement from China, which chafed at the notion that the US would seek to punish all countries that trade with the North, and similarly suggested that it too would veto any further sanctions on North Korea.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cRussia condemns North Korea\u2019s exercises, we consider that they are a provocation \u2026 (But) ramping up military hysteria will lead to nothing good. It could lead to a global catastrophe,\u201d he&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/09\/tyler-durden\/putin-rejects-sanctions-north-korea\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After UN Ambassador Nikki Haley asked the security council to pass the \u201cstrongest possible\u201d sanctions against North Korea which was \u201cbegging for war\u201d\u00a0following the isolated nation\u2019s sixth nuclear test which took place over the weekend, Russia President Vladimir Putin has hinted that Russia may \u2013 and most likely will \u2013 use its Security Council veto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-324826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}