Head of Russia’s Security Council: Russia Is Prepared For A North Korea War

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev looks at President Vladimir Putin during a meeting with the BRICS countries' senior officials in charge of security matters at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 26, 2015. Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters

Newsweek: Russia Is Preparing for North Korea War as Tensions Rise, Says Putin's Top Security Adviser

Russia is making preparations in case the diplomatic crisis around North Korea’s nuclear testing escalates into a fully fledged armed conflict, the head of Moscow’s Security Council said on Friday.

North Korea and the U.S. have threatened each other with war over Pyongyang’s decision to defy international appeals and continue developing nuclear weapons. Russia and China, who have provided trade lifelines to a globally isolated regime in North Korea, have also opposed its weapons program but have been reluctant to back either side in the war posturing.

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Update #1: Russia Calls U.S. Threat to Destroy North Korea a 'Bloodthirsty Tirade' (US News and World Report/Reuters).
Update #2: Russian Lawmakers in North Korea During ICBM Test Say Pyongyang ‘Morally Ready’ for War (Epoch Times)

WNU Editor: Aside from all the Kremlin propaganda that Moscow can play a role in solving the Korean crisis .... bottom line .... they have very little influence on Kim Jong-un. The country that has the clout is China, and if they cannot succeed in influencing North Korean leader Kim Jung-un .... there is not chance that Putin will be able to pull a rabbit out of this hat.