Plans for deploying U.S. anti-missile defense systems on Korean Peninsula are above any possible threats, which may come from DPRK - Lavrov

MOSCOW, March 11. /TASS/. The plans to deploy the U.S. anti-missile defense systems on the Korean Peninsula are above any possible threats, which may come from the DPRK, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said after his talks with the Chinese counterpart Want Yi on Friday. "As for the anti-missile defense, there we are sharing a common position with China, on which we shall insist at international forums, at the UN and in respective formats," Lavrov said. "We consider it absolutely important not to be hiding behind explanations claiming those plans were caused by the DPRK's ventures," he said. "The plans, which the U.S. has been nursing together with the Republic of Korea, are in their scales above any possible threats, which may come from the DPRK, even if to consider Pyongyang's recent actions; likewise the plans from the U.S. anti-missile defense’s another segment - the European one - cannot be compared with the threats, which the U.S. claimed initially as reasons for making the European anti-missile defense." "Thus, in both directions, we shall be proving absolute lack of reasons for plans of the kind, which threaten breaking up the global parity and the strategic stability," the Russian foreign minister said. "We shall call our American counterparts to an honest and open discussion.". Read more