The Russian foreign Ministry said that Moscow had consistently objected to the placement of missile defense facilities in South Korea. According to the foreign Ministry, strengthen US capabilities in the Pacific segment of its global missile defense system, thereby violating the established strategic balance.
«Such actions, whatever they were substantiated, the most negative impact on global strategic stability, the commitment which so love to talk in Washington. They also threaten regional tensions, creating new challenges to solve complex problems of the Korean Peninsula including its denuclearization. I hope that our partners, given the difficult balance of forces in the region, will be able once again to weigh all the circumstances and to prevent hasty actions which could lead to tragic and irreparable consequences for the situation in northeast Asia and beyond,» reads the MFA statement.
Meanwhile, the President of Academy of geopolitical problems Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov told RIA Novosti that Russia in response to the deployment of missile defense in Korea can accommodate the additional strike missile systems in the far East, including the Kuril Islands.
According to him, in addition to ground-based complexes, can be set complexes «Caliber» on the ships of the Pacific fleet. Recall that these missiles the Russian ships on the Caspian sea fired on targets in Syria.
Against the deployment of American missile defense system in South Korea were also made by the Chinese government.
[israel-today.ru]
8/7/16
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