{"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<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","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 urged Washington not to use force against North Korea, as tensions surged after the latest missile test by Pyongyang. In a phone call late Wednesday with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"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}]}}