Senior Russian diplomat urges restraint over North Korea

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Moscow urged restraint in the Korean peninsular on Saturday, after North Korea said it was entering a "state of war" with South Korea in a further escalation of its bellicose rhetoric against Seoul and its main ally, the United States.              

"We hope that all parties will exercise maximum responsibility and restraint and no-one will cross the point of no return," senior Russian Foreign Ministry official Grigory Logvinov told Interfax news agency.                     
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Friday put missile units on standby to attack U.S. military bases in the South and the Pacific, after two nuclear-capable U.S. stealth bombers flew over the Korean peninsula in a rare show of force.                     

Russia warned on Friday that the heightened military activity was slipping into a "vicious cycle" that could get out of control.                      
 
North Korea has been threatening to attack the South and U.S. military bases almost on a daily basis since the beginning of March, when U.S. and South Korean militaries started routine drills, and has ordered its armed forces on the highest alert.            

But the impoverished state has kept a joint industrial zone that is the source of hard currency where hundreds of South Korean workers and vehicles cross enter daily after crossing the rival Koreas' heavily armed border.   

Few believe North Korea will risk starting a full-out war.   

The two Koreas have been in a technical state of war because their 1950-53 conflict ended under an armistice and not a peace treaty, although Pyongyang earlier in March declared the truce no longer valid.


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