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Putin: Russia will not sit idle while US deploys global anti-missile system
Published time: 1 Jun, 2017 09:31
Edited time: 1 Jun, 2017 10:55
Putin: Russia will not sit idle while US deploys global anti-missile system
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Russia sees the latest development of US anti-missile system in South Korea as a challenge and will not leave it without a response, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, explaining Russia’s own military build-up in the region.
“This issue is a major concern for us and we have been constantly voicing it for decades. This disrupts the strategic balance in the world,” Putin underlined while talking to foreign media on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Thursday. “But the world is silent and nobody listens to us.”


“They have elements in their ABM system in Alaska and now in South Korea. Do we have to look at this helplessly and do the same in Eastern Europe? Of course not. We contemplate our response to this challenge,” he added.

Putin said Russia doesn’t believe Western assurances that the ABM system is not directed against Russia and is working on ways to countering it. He said it was de facto part of an arms race.

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The Russian president said the US used to justify the deployment of ABM sites in Europe by a perceived threat from Iran, but the nuclear deal with Tehran failed to alter its deployment. So he considers the justification of ABM deployment in Asia-Pacific and the threat from North Korea equally dubious.

“It’s not about North Korea. If tomorrow North Korea declares it is stopping nuclear tests and canceling its rocket program, the US will continue building its ABM system under some new pretext or without one at all,” he said.

Putin added that Russia’s concern over US military infrastructure near its borders is quite rational, considering the unstable situation in America at the moment and the growth of Russophobia there.

The comment came in response to a question from a Japanese correspondent, who asked about Russian military development in the Kuril Islands and whether Russia would support a plan to demilitarize them and eventually hand over the four contested islands of the archipelago to Japan.

Putin said only a more wide-scale demilitarization in the region could be viable in the long run.

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida © Evgeny BiyatovRussia to Japan: US missile defense in Asia-Pacific poses security risks
Japan claims sovereignty over four southernmost Kuril Islands, which the USSR captured during World War II. Moscow agreed to hand over two of them back to Japan, but reversed the decision after Japan signed a military alliance with US, which allowed deployment of American troops in the country.

The issue remains unresolved and is the biggest stumbling block in Russian-Japanese relations. The two countries are planning to jointly develop the contested islands while keeping them under Russian administration.

‘Hackers can’t tilt elections’
A German journalist asked for the president’s comments about concerns that Russia may interfere through hacking in the upcoming general election in Germany. Putin said it was doubtful that any information obtained through hacking and leaked to the public could have any significant impact on a national election, adding that the Russian government does not use hackers.

“My firm conviction is that no hackers can influence a foreign election campaign in a significant way. No information leaked this way would resonate with the voters and affect the outcome,” he said.

“We don’t do this at a state level, have no intention of doing it, and on the contrary – we are fighting against it,” he added





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