Deploying US missile defense system in South Korea will not help solve nuclear problem - Russian ambassador

SEOUL, February 2. /TASS/. Deploying the US anti-ballistic missile system THAAD in South Korea will not help solve the North’s nuclear problem, Russian Ambassador to Seoul Alexander Timonin told a press conference on Tuesday. "We note more active contacts between South Korean and US defense ministries on this issues," Timonin said. "Russia thinks that deployment of such systems in the Republic of Korea hardly facilitates strengthening peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and brings the resolution of the nuclear problem," he added. "That is why the Russian leadership calls on all interested parties to demonstrate restraint and especially refrain from any steps in the military sphere that may destabilize the situation on the Korean Peninsula," the ambassador noted. The issue of deploying US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) has been brought back to the agenda in South Korea after Pyongyang said it carried out a hydrogen bomb test on January 6. Read more