Russia’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement Thursday calling on the United States to immediately halt all military activity on the Korean Peninsula. The US is currently engaged in joint military operations with South Korea.
The spring joint operations are always a source of tension on the peninsula, and Russian officials say they are “not helping” in ongoing efforts to try to reduce military tensions in Korea. The operations have been a problem every year.
This year it hasn’t been as big an issue, however. The joint operations are smaller and only half as long this year because of the Winter Olympics. North Korea has been fine with ignoring the operations this year.
North Korea has planned summits with both South Korea and the United States over the next two months, and doesn’t want to risk damaging the considerable diplomatic progress over the wargames, especially when they’re visibly toned down from recent years.
Russian federation is the only hope to keep Korea in peace
It’s a sad day in modern day that the Ru.ssians have to play the role of peace keepers.
No, they’re not “the only hope” – but it is helpful.
The empire is kaputt. Good for rest of the world.
America isn’t finished keep dreaming 38 Russian oligarchs very close to Putin just got sanctioned and America is moving air defense systems and brigades into Eastern Europe. As for the joint military drills we do with a sovereign nation it’s been effective in bringing North Korea to the negotiating table. Russia’s economy is dependent on the free nation’s it’s constantly trying to influence. People like you are the obvious targets it’s counting on to help spread its propaganda. They helped Trump get elected to get the Magninsky Act lifted and avoid more sanctions but, since Trump is a conman all they got were a bunch of empty promises and a hawk in the oval office. America is on a roll in a few years we’ll have a military so dangerous and a nuclear arsenal so lethal the world will definitely know we’re back stronger than ever. During Obama’s terms we were very passive and had a weakened economy so America had to fix our problems at home while our adversaries built up. Those days are gone. A Republican president, House, and Senate thanks Russia meddle in 2018 help keep the hawks in power please our military depends on it….How’s that for Russia playing peace maker??? Those dumb asses are helping the people who want to contain them get elected…Idiots.
“As for the joint military drills we do with a sovereign nation it’s been effective in bringing North Korea to the negotiating table”
Why on Earth would you think that?
The US has been holding large joint exercises with South Korea for decades — AT LEAST since 1976 when the “Team Spirit” series began. If that’s the kind of thing that brings North Korea to the table, then why didn’t it do so some time in the last 40-odd years instead of just now?
“During Obama’s terms we were very passive”
The US conducted joint exercises with South Korea in EVERY year of the Obama regime under the Key Resolve/Foal Eagle label. If that’s what brings the North to the table, why didn’t the North come to the table in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 or 2016?
Aren’t they doing joint military drills right now? Didn’t Trump deploy a massive military build up in South Korea? Didn’t we send a nuclear Armada to the peninsula with nuclear bombers guided by South Korean F-15s doing mock bombings? Isn’t it working? That’s how I can say that.
The US is doing the same thing that the US has done for 70 years, with different results.
Which means that the US doing the same thing the US has done for 70 years isn’t what produced the results.
If I smash my own hand with a hammer every day for five years, and then one day after I smash my hand with a hammer a check for a million dollars arrives in the mail, I’d be silly to say “oh, it must have been because of the hammer thing.”
Spin it however you want I expect nothing less from the moderator of this so called antiwar propaganda platform but, you can’t argue with results even China was so worried about what Trump was planning it started to help contain North Korea and voted with America in the U.N. security council. I know you and everyone else on this site have a hard time staying focused on what’s happening right now in this administration and want to go into the ole America is evil mode and I support the living man god mode but, those days are over. People are smart enough to know a propaganda platform when they’re on one and this is definitely a propaganda enemy sympathizing anti-American forum where conspiracy theories are treated as truth and facts are fed via internet to the journalist that has never even been to the warzones he writes about. If you take stories off the internet re-write them with an anti-American narrative and have been doing so since the Iraq war and get a check in the mail for a million dollars one day you can’t say it’s because of the FAKE journalism thing you’ve been doing that’d be silly according to your logic, as silly as this site and the people that believe the information on it.
This site and its readers would have to work overtime to get as silly as you.
Says the man that moderates a site full of anti-Zionist conspiracy freaks that turn around and complain about Nazi’s in Ukraine it’s comical and the sad part is you know it’s TRUE.
Most of Antiwar.com’s people, and most of its commenters, are anti-Zionists. On the other hand, one of Antiwar.com’s frontline columnists, Uri Avnery, is an avid Zionist who in fact fought with the Irgun for the creation of Israel, and pro-Zionist commenters are as welcome here as any.
Yes, there are some conspiracy theory types who comment here. And that’s fine.
So far as I can tell, Antiwar.com is the most pro-American site on the Internet. Its writers and its commenters want to make America better instead of worse. There’s a degree to which that’s like trying to turn the Manson Family into the Brady Bunch, but that just makes the sentiment all the more admirable.
Hard to understand how we carried on 7 wars during Obama’s terms and yet were being “passive”. Anyway, we fixed our problems at home and our military and our nukes will be in an ass kicking mode from here on out so take heed world. Gotcha.
Passive as in red line in Syria and no consequence. Passive.
You didn’t say that. “During Obama’s terms we were very passive…” Hardly specific about Syria. Obama bombed 7 Muslim countries. Not passive.
Did he bomb Syria??? I don’t think so….Either way those days are over and thanks to our Frenemies in Russia we’ve got a commander with a vision to make America great again and those idiots actually helped get a Republican elected we couldn’t have done it without them thanks Russia…
Again, you said “During Obama’s TERMS” so stop trying to backtrack. But yes he did drop bombs in Syria. And how are those days over? Trump has bombed the same 7 countries so I guess his vision is the same as the “passive” Obama.
Yawn… I have stopped arguing with people who still claim that “Russia” “helped Trump get elected”.
I’ll just say that about 50% of voters do not vote because they refuse to make a choice between cholera and gonorrhea (I support the Green Party). In order to defeat Trump all Killary had to do was to convince just 1% of the silent 50% voters that she would make a better president than the racist, demagogic reality TV show host. No foreign intervention needed.
It gives me no pleasure to conclude that the demise of the empire is not a question of if, but when and how.