World War 3: China and Russia begin naval drills near North Korea

North Korea launched a missile over Japan last Friday,
its second in the past three weeks, and conducted its
sixth and by far most powerful nuclear test on
September 3, in defiance of international pressure.
The official Xinhua news agency said the joint
exercises will take place between Peter the Great Bay,
just outside of the Russian far eastern port of
Vladivostok, not far from the Russia- North Korea
border, and into the southern part of the Sea of
Okhotsk, to the north of Japan.
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The drills are the second part of China-Russian naval
exercises this year, the first part of which took place
in the Baltic in July. The report did not directly link the
drills to current tensions over North Korea.
Both China and Russia have repeatedly called for a
peaceful solution and talks to resolve the issue.
The international community must remain united and
enforce sanctions against North Korea after its
repeated launch of ballistic missiles, Japanese Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe said in an article published in the
New York Times yesterday.
Such tests are in violation of UN Security Council
resolutions and show that North Korea can now target
the United States or Europe, Abe said.
North Korea launched a missile over Japan last Friday
Diplomacy and dialogue will not work with North Korea
and concerted pressure by the entire international
community is essential to tackle the threats posed by
North Korea, Prime Minister Abe wrote.
A week ago, the 15-member UN Security Council
unanimously adopted its ninth sanctions resolution
since 2006 over North Korea's nuclear and ballistic
missile programmes.
On Monday, the official China Daily said sanctions
should be given time to bite but that the door must be
left open to talks.
Kim Jong-un's latest missile
test
Wed, August 30, 2017
Nuclear-armed North Korea said on August 30 that
it had fired a missile over Japan the previous day,
the first time it has ever acknowledged doing so
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“With its Friday missile launch, Pyongyang wanted to
give the impression that sanctions will not work. Some
people have fallen for that and immediately echoed
the suggestion, pointing to the failure of past
sanctions to achieve their purpose,” it said in an
editorial.
“But that past sanctions did not work does not mean
they will not. It is too early to claim failure because
the latest sanctions have hardly begun to take effect.
Giving the sanctions time to bite is the best way to
make Pyongyang reconsider.”
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said
on Sunday the UN Security Council has run out of
options on containing North Korea's nuclear
programme and the United States may have to turn
the matter over to the Pentagon.
China has urged the United States to refrain from
making threats to North Korea. Asked about President
Donald Trump's warning last month that the North
Korean threat to the United States will be met with
“fire and fury,” Ambassador Haley said, “It was not an
empty threat.”
Pyongyang has launched dozens of missiles as it
accelerates a weapons programme designed to provide
the ability to target the United States with a powerful,
nuclear-tipped missile.
North Korea said on Saturday it aimed to reach an
“equilibrium” of military force with the United States.

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