American Allies and Adversaries Urge Caution on North Korea<br />"Together with China, Russia offered a very reasonable plan providing for the ‘double freeze.’ Kim Jong-un freezes any nuclear tests, any ballistic missile launches, while the U.S. and South Korea freeze large-scale military exercises, which are constantly used by North Korea as an excuse to conduct tests." Russian experts worry<br />that while the United States is unlikely to launch an all-out military attack on North Korea, it could make a limited strike.<br />"If the Americans apply military force against the D.P.R.K., they will clearly lose whatever political support Moscow<br />and Beijing have provided so far for U.S. policy toward North Korea," Mr. Batyuk told Kommersant, a Russian newspaper, using the initials for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the formal name of the North.<br />He said that Russia, which last weekend joined the United States<br />and China in voting at the United Nations Security Council for severe new sanctions against Pyongyang, did not accept North Korea as a nuclear power.<br />11, 2017<br />LONDON — World leaders expressed alarm on Friday at the bellicose language emanating from North Korea and the United States,<br />but also some support for President Trump, as they sought to allay their citizens’ fears of a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula.<br />Malcolm Turnbull said that We stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the United States,<br />This, warned Vladimir I. Batyuk, of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies in Moscow, would shatter the united front<br />that Russia, China and the United States displayed in the sanctions vote at the United Nations.<br />Lavrov said that Talk of the need to carry out a pre-emptive strike at North Korea, Pyongyang’s talk of the need<br />to strike at Guam island at the U.S. military base, this has been continual, and we are very worried by this,
