Putin warns world leaders to stop ‘intimidating’ North Korea

Russian President, Vladimir Putin says Moscow is opposed to any new countries acquiring nuclear weapons, but that the world should talk to North Korea rather than threaten it.

While speaking in Beijing, Putin says nuclear tests of the type that Pyongyang had been carrying out in recent weeks were unacceptable, but that a peaceful solution to rising tensions on the Korean peninsula was needed.

He continued saying that countries need to return to dialogue with North Korea and stop scaring it and find ways to resolve these problems peacefully.

The Russian leader says he thought such an approach was possible because of what he called “the positive experience” of holding talks with Pyongyang in the past.