News conferences aside, Vladimir Putin doesn’t do a whole lot of serious talking to the press these days. If he’s not out playing hockey (and winning, of course, with hat tricks galore), then he’s making jokes in a fashion magazine about his slacks versus Hillary’s slacks, or he out hunting and fishing bare-chested as he sits majestically upon his white horse in the mountains of Russia!
When Putin does do a press conference, it’s usually glum and reserved, as was the case with his newest remarks on North Korea. It is apparent by his recent comments on the tyrant leader of the rogue nation that he attempted through his Chinese proxies to rationalize with Pyongyang, only to receive the very sobering answer that North Korea refuses to do anything that anyone wants and that he is the king of his sandbox!
The examples of Iraq and Libya have convinced the North Korean leadership that only nuclear deterrence can protect them, so no sanctions can dissuade them, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
Pyongyang will not relinquish its military program under pressure of sanctions and military threats, because the examples of Iraq and Libya have convinced it that nuclear deterrence is the only credible way to ensure its security, President Putin told journalists on Tuesday.
“Ramping up military hysteria in such conditions is senseless; it’s a dead end,” he added.
“It could lead to a global, planetary catastrophe and a huge loss of human life. There is no other way to solve the North Korean nuclear issue, save that of peaceful dialogue.”
The 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and the 2011 NATO intervention in Libya both came after the leaders of those countries submitted to international pressure and relinquished their programs of weapons of mass destruction in exchange for sanctions relief.
North Korea for its part chose confrontation with the world community, successfully developing nuclear weapons and currently, rapidly perfecting the means of their delivery.
“As I told my colleagues yesterday, they will eat grass but will not stop their program as long as they do not feel safe,” Putin said. “What can restore their security? The restoration of international law.”
In some strange way, I understand his reasoning behind NOT responding to the demands by the international community to submit to weapons inspections, etc., specifically because of the issues cited in previous situations with both Iraq and Libya.
However, the obvious fact that everyone seems to be dancing around is that…THIS…GUY…IS…NUTS!
You can sympathize all you want with the people that have to live beneath his thumb, with the generals that have to do his bidding (however crazy), with the scientists who have to work round the clock to get him his nuclear warheads. Heck, you can even sympathize with the chef who prepares a weird-tasting Dak galbi who is then taken out into the countryside to hunt special mushrooms…and never returns!
What you can’t do is sympathize with this maniac. A guy who has killed his own half-brother by poison! A guy who has killed his own uncle and aunt, and publicly executed on live television his ex-girlfriend!
The time of sympathizing is over for this guy. And what EXACTLY does Putin mean when he talks about the “restoration of international law?”
What he’s talking about here is the restoration of consideration of a world court that will hold the Americans and their allies up to standards that no one else will be held up to, as well as ensuring that, no matter what type of threats issue from the mouth of this evil dictator, we will have no choice but to bow to his insults and “eat grass!”
Not likely.
Source: RT Question More
Well you set him up you bastard,join us in putting him out of business,you duplicitous ahole
Russia and China can stop NK.
Well – when crazy little men think they have power what else can happen