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Putin Echoes China in Spurning U.S. on North Korea Sanctions
- ‘They’ll eat grass, but they won’t abandon their program’
- Russian leader warns of risk of catastrophe from war rhetoric
Russia's Putin Spurns U.S. on N. Korea Sanctions
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Russian President Vladimir Putin again rejected U.S. calls for new sanctions against North Korea after its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, echoing China’s resistance to more punitive measures to pressure Pyongyang into abandoning its atomic and missile programs.
The Russian leader criticized sanctions as “useless and ineffective,” instead urging the international community to offer security guarantees to North Korea.