N.Korean Threats Cannot Be Ignored as Efforts Needed for Deescalation
SputnikNews.com
07.03.2016
The international community should stand firm but seek to deescalate even verbal confrontations with North Korea and also try to find a path forward on negotiations, according to experts.
MOSCOW (Sputnik), Alexander Mosesov — The international community should not ignore North Korea’s military and nuclear threats, as more efforts are needed to deescalate the situation on the Korean peninsula, experts told Sputnik.
On Sunday, South Korea and the United States began their largest-ever joint exercises amid increased tensions on the Korean Peninsula. On Thursday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered the military to prepare to use its nuclear weapons at any moment in light of the exercise, according to the country’s state media reports.
“We should never ignore North Korean bluster. But not can we capitulate… We should stand firm but seek to deescalate even verbal confrontations and also try to find a path forward on negotiations,” Brookings Institution Foreign Policy Program Research Director Michael O’Hanlon said.
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