Corea del Norte: Rusia advierte a Estados Unidos

Rusia ha advertido a Estados Unidos de las consecuencias que podría acarrear un ataque unilateral contra Corea del Norte: “Este es un camino muy arriesgado”, dijo el ministro de Exteriores ruso Sergei Lavrov durante una conferencia de prensa en Moscú. “No aceptamos las actividades con misiles nucleares de Pyongyang que violan las resoluciones de la ONU, pero eso no quiere decir que se pueda romper la ley internacional. Espero que no habrá ninguna acción unilateral como la que vimos recientemente en Siria”  añadió.

Estas declaraciones se han producido a raíz de que el Vicepresidente de Estados Unidos, Michael Pence, aconsejara hoy lunes a Corea del Norte que no ponga a prueba la determinación del presidente Donald Trump, declarando que “todas las opciones están sobre la mesa” para detener sus programas de misiles y armas nucleares: “En las últimas dos semanas, el mundo fue testigo de la fuerza y ​​la determinación de nuestro nuevo presidente en las medidas adoptadas en Siria y Afganistán. Corea del Norte haría bien en no poner a prueba su determinación o la intensidad de las fuerzas armadas de los Estados Unidos.”

¿No need for European MDS?

There's no need for a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe if the Iranian nuclear threat subsides, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday.

NATO is currently rolling out its new Europe-wide missile defense shield, which will include two interceptor bases close to the Russian border in Romania and Poland, with the first of the first ground missiles becoming operational in 2015. The bases will be able to shoot down short and medium-range ballistic missiles.

Lavrov recently called missile defense a “burning issue” in Moscow-Washington relations, and said that Russia will soften its stance on the Eastern European bases only if NATO provides written assurances that they will never be used to shoot down Russian missiles. 

Russia: New ABM system S-500

 

The Russian military is developing and deploying an array of new and modernized anti-missile interceptors like an advanced S-500 missile defense system currently being built in addition to the already available, and very capable, S-400 and S-300 defenses.

 

Additionally, the Russians are upgrading the SH-08 nuclear-tipped anti-missile interceptors that have been deployed around Moscow for more than two decades. Other new Russian defenses with capabilities against both aircraft and missiles include SA-20 and SA-21 surface-to-air missiles, and a new advanced system called the SA-X-23, an advanced version of the S-300.

 

Thomas moore, a former strategic affairs specialist with the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, said Russia plans to create a vast air and missile defense architecture in and among states of the former Soviet Union under the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

“Its recent announcement of the S-300 [air-missile defense] deployments to Belarus are an indicator of things to come,” Moore said, noting that open source reports indicated Moscow has developed a nuclear warhead for the S-300. (Read more)