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Russia Putin Warns Korean Crisis Could Be Worse Than Chernobyl
Russian President Vladimir Putin appealed on Monday for calm on the Korean Peninsula, warning that the escalation of tension in the region could lead to a nuclear disaster far worse than the Chernobyl incident.
“We are concerned about the escalation on the Korean Peninsula because we are neighbors and because if, God forbid, anything should happen there, Chernobyl, of which we are all only too aware, would seem like mere child’s play in comparison,” Putin said at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
“I would like to call on everybody to calm down and to sit down at the negotiating table and calmly resolve the issues that have been accumulating there for many years ,” he said.
Tensions began to rise on the Korean Peninsula after international sanctions were imposed on North Korea in response to a long-range rocket launch in December, which world powers condemned as a ballistic missile test. North Korea responded by carrying out a third nuclear test in February, which was followed by more sanctions.
North Korea has threatened pre-emptive nuclear strikes against the US mainland and US military bases in the region.
Some of its latest threats came after US and South Korean forces carried out annual joint military exercises, some of which took place near the maritime border between the two Koreas. The United States responded by deploying F-22 Raptor stealth fighters to the region, and making overflights of South Korea by B-2 and B-52 bombers.
North Korea reportedly moved two missiles capable of striking the US Pacific territory of Guam onto mobile launch pads on Friday, and advised foreign embassies to consider pulling staff out of Pyongyang.
Balance of Forces on Korean Peninsula
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the world’s worst such accident, took place in 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union). An explosion and fire at one of the reactors released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, which spread over much of western Russia and Europe.
9 Comments on "Russia Putin Warns Korean Crisis Could Be Worse Than Chernobyl"
GregT on Wed, 10th Apr 2013 1:19 am
The boys with the most toys when they die, win. Too bad we couldn’t ship them off to another planet and let them annihilate each other, so the rest of us could live in peace.
BillT on Wed, 10th Apr 2013 1:30 am
With the big bully, the US threatening them with starvation if the don’t submit to the chains of the Empire, what can you expect? We did the same thing to Japan and brought on Pearl Harbor. We don’t dare invade because this little dog has a big nuclear stick. I wonder why Iran wants one? Insurance?
I’m just glad South Korea is way north and Guam is way east of the Philippines and the fallout will go east towards Hawaii and North America where it should. Maybe it will wake up the sheeple. Nah! They won’t even be told that it is there killing them.
DC on Wed, 10th Apr 2013 1:41 am
The US seeks to ignite a global conflagration. The ‘thinking’ seems to be since the US made out literally, like bandits, if they start another one, it will be like, WW2 2.0. Amerika will come out on top(again) and everyone elses lands will be devastated, while the Us gets off scot-free. Then perhaps the amerikans will be able to reap the ‘advantages’ of being the ‘winner’ just like they did after WW2. Plus, a global war will allow the US to crack down hard on dissent at home, while the war-machine cranks out record profits(again) for the US corporate rulers.
As an added bonus, the amerikans seem to think if they can somehow get the rest of the world, or large portions of it flattened to rubble, anyone left alive would a much harder time resisting US theft of the worlds remaining natural resources.
Amerika IS the aggressor nation. It, and its satraps provoke conflict in every corner of the globe. In the ME, its Saudi Arabia\Israel, in Asia, S.Korea is all too willing to do amerikas dirty, work. Perhaps to a much lessor extent, Japan. In Europe, the UK and now Frances recently re-aquired love of old-fashioned gun-boat imperialism are helping keep things hot in Northern Africa as well. Its interesting to note, most of the average citizens of the US ‘allies’ are rather opposed to what is being done under the direction of the US. I bet most South Koreans are opposed to US provocations on the peninsula as well.
Norm on Wed, 10th Apr 2013 7:57 am
What does America being an aggressor, etc etc have to do with some juvenile little boy being a ruler of some messed up country and he gets to have nuclear weapons? Seems like maybe worry a little more about North Korea, and a little less about all the failings of the USA? I’d say taking away the little boy’s nuclear toys is way overdue.
Arthur on Wed, 10th Apr 2013 9:03 am
DC sums it up perfectly.
“What does America being an aggressor, etc etc have to do with some juvenile little boy being a ruler of some messed up country and he gets to have nuclear weapons?”
Yeah that’s going to be the reasoning of the NWO croud… push some sucker like “Kim Lanza” over the brink, let him blow up Seoul (if necessary with a false-flag nuke from a NWO arsenal, nobody will be able to tell the difference) and the entire world will understand that proliferation is a deadly threat (which it is) and that world government is the only solution. And the US will ‘volunteer’ to organize that.
Korea as a sort of Newtown write large.
Game, set and match for the AIPAC-rulers of the US.
As DC says, it is the US who is seeking to ‘ignite a global conflagration’. They do it now, they did under in 1939 (if you take the time to carefully study it).
Look, not even I deny that the presence of nukes (a ‘gift’ of the jews to the world: Einstein, Oppenheimer, Teller, Szilard, Fermi in 1945) at some point needs to be addressed and that some form of NWO-lite/international order is unescapable because of it. The question is: who is going to write such a international constitution? If we let ‘AIPAC’ do it, it means a world without borders and destruction of our civilization. My ‘modest’ counter proposal is:
– regime change in Washington (via 9/11-truth and the internet), AIPAC kicked out and next a
– conference in Kazakstan where diplomats from the EU, Russia, US and Chinese sit around the table and hammer out a follow up arrangement that replaces Bretton Woods/UN/security council/IMF
– acknowledgment that industrial society in it’s old form is unsustainable and that a bold program is needed to address that new situation
– post-imperial world: abandonment of ALL foreign military bases, like no US or Chinese troops in Japan.
– act on the insight that military fleets are useless anyway in the age of supersonic missiles and should be abolished globally, freeing resources needed elsewhere (new energy base)
– Mongolia and Kazakstan as buffer zones between Greater Europe and China
– Abolishment of ICBMs under mutual verification, a few hundred warheads plus bombers left.
– Ending mass migration everywhere (read: to the US and EU)
– respect for local identity and principle of non-intervention. Idea of multi-polar world (yet with the White Christian and Han-Chinese world the carrying pillars)
– shittly little countries like Israel, Iran, Korea or Pakistan indeed cannot have nukes.
dsula on Wed, 10th Apr 2013 12:23 pm
Norm, don’t you know? For BillyT and his sidekick DC, everything is the fault of the USA, no matter what, where or when it happened.
GregT on Wed, 10th Apr 2013 1:14 pm
BillT, DC, and Arthur are correct.
The rest of you need to stop watching corporate television, and spend some of your new found time doing a bit of research.
LT on Wed, 10th Apr 2013 3:53 pm
Go to an Immigration and Naturalization Service (the INS) near your home (if you live in the USA) you will often (if not always) see long lines of people seeking all kinds of citizenship/green cards in order to stay in the US. And on the day they are granted these long sought papers, their faces are lit up with big smiles.
The funny thing is even top chinese leaders like Xi jinping also sent his young daughter -Xi mingde – to Havard to study. This means Uncle Sam is still alot better than uncle Mao, isn’t it?
J-Gav on Wed, 10th Apr 2013 5:18 pm
Some interesting (and some strange) commentary here on this one. Just a little reminder: Media hype notwithstanding, World War III will not be the US against North Korea. They are merely posturing to try and get more attention to their plight and rip off the east and the west for a few more aid dollars. South Koreans are perfectly aware of this and have been going on about their business as if nothing had happened (and it hasn’t and it won’t). At least not yet.
Endless rehearsals of these end-games do create a mood, nevertheless, as well as tension, and that’s hardly by chance.
At this particular moment in history, when the West is on the verge of financial collapse, it’s always nice to have a vilain to absorb some of the heat and take peoples’ attention away from the coming mayhem. North Korea is a midget, China’s behind almost everything they do, despite their denials …