MOSCOW: Russia and China would oppose any foreign military intervention in North Korea, however, they regret Pyongyang’s last week nuclear test, two countries’ foreign ministers said on Friday.
“We are against the carrying out of a nuclear test in North Korea,” Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told a joint news conference after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow.
The foreign ministers said any action against North Korea had to be agreed at the United Nations, where Russia and China have the right of veto as permanent members of the Security Council.
“The UN Security Council should give an adequate response … but the action should be directed towards peace on the Korean peninsula,” Lavrov said.
Lavrov said China and Russia had agreed that it was “vitally important not to … allow the situation to be used as a pretext for military intervention.”
