{"id":3423,"date":"2017-09-01T09:51:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T09:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=3423"},"modified":"2017-09-01T09:51:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T09:51:15","slug":"russia-warns-us-against-using-force-over-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/russia-warns-us-against-using-force-over-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia warns US against using force over North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Security Council denounced North Korea\u2019s latest missile test, unanimously demanding that Pyongyang halt the programme.<\/p>\n<p>Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has urged Washington not to use force against North Korea, as tensions surged after the latest missile test by Pyongyang.<\/p>\n<p>In a phone call late Wednesday with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Lavrov \u201cunderscored&#8230;the need to refrain from any military steps that could have unpredictable consequences,\u201d the foreign ministry in Moscow said.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s lead diplomat said any attempts to toughen sanctions against North Korea would be \u201ccounterproductive and dangerous\u201d while condemning Pyongyang\u2019s shooting of a missile over Japan as a \u201cgross violation\u201d of United Nations resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>Early on Tuesday, the reclusive state fired an intermediate-range Hwasong-12 over Japan, prompting US President Donald Trump to insist that \u201call options\u201d were on the table in an implied threat of pre-emptive military action.<\/p>\n<p>The UN Security Council denounced North Korea\u2019s latest missile test, unanimously demanding that Pyongyang halt the programme.<\/p>\n<p>US heavy bombers and stealth jet fighters took part in a joint live fire drill in South Korea on Thursday, intended as a show of force against the North, Seoul said.<\/p>\n<p>And British Prime Minister Theresa May, who is visiting Japan, said Thursday that London and Tokyo would work together to step up the pace of sanctions against nuclear-armed North Korea after the latest launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Security Council denounced North Korea\u2019s latest missile test, unanimously demanding that Pyongyang halt the programme. Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3425,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions\/3425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}