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Putin Rejects Cutting Off Oil to North Korea

President Moon Jae-in, left, of South Korea and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Tuesday, at an economic summit meeting in Vladivostok, Russia. Mr. Moon asked Mr. Putin on Wednesday to support a proposed oil embargo on North Korea. 


SEOUL, South Korea — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said his country opposed cutting off oil supplies to North Korea as part of new sanctions being considered in the wake of the country’s latest nuclear test, according to official accounts of his meeting Wednesday with President Moon Jae-in of South Korea.
The United States and its allies are pushing for a global embargo on oil exports to North Korea as the United Nations Security Council debates a new round of sanctions against the North. Russia has veto power over any such Security Council sanctions.

North Korea has been getting most of its oil from China. But it has been trying to increase imports from Russia as an alternative source of energy for its military, as well as for its decrepit industries, amid signs that Beijing is growing impatient with the North’s nuclear adventurism, South Korean analysts said.

During a meeting on the sidelines of an economic summit conference in the eastern Russian city of Vladivostok on Wednesday, Mr. Moon asked Mr. Putin to support the proposed oil embargo. But Mr. Putin said that sanctions and pressure would not persuade North Korea to give up nuclear weapons, said Yoon Young-chan, a spokesman for Mr. Moon.

Stopping oil exports to the country would instead hurt ordinary North Koreans by disrupting hospitals and other civilian facilities, Mr. Yoon quoted Mr. Putin as saying. Mr. Putin said Russia exported less than 40,000 tons of oil a year to North Korea.


“Without political and diplomatic tools, it is impossible to make headway in the current situation; to be more precise, it is impossible,” Mr. Putin said during a joint news conference with Mr. Moon.

Despite his opposition to cutting off oil exports, Mr. Putin said North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests were a flagrant violation of United Nationsresolutions.


A fuel truck in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, in July. The United States and its allies are pushing for an embargo on oil exports to North Korea, but Russia has veto power over any such sanctions being considered by the United Nations Security Council. CreditEd Jones/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

But “we should not act out of emotions and push North Korea into a dead end,” Mr. Putin said, according to dispatches from South Korean reporters. “We must act with calm and avoid steps that could raise tensions.”

His remarks came on the same day that the South Korean Defense Ministry said that the United States military planned to complete the deployment of an advanced missile-defense system in South Korea on Thursday.

The deployment of that system, the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, or Thaad, is vehemently opposed by China, which argues that it will exacerbate tensions with North Korea and could undermine China’s own nuclear deterrent by giving the United States another means to monitor its missiles.

In April, the United States installed the radar and two of the six interceptor-missile launchers of the Thaad battery on an abandoned hilltop golf course in Seongju, 135 miles southeast of Seoul, the capital. The battery became operational immediately.

On Wednesday, the Defense Ministry said the remaining four launchers would be installed on Thursday in response to “North Korea’s advancing nuclear and missile threats.”

Those threats have prompted both Beijing and Moscow to agree on increasingly tougher sanctions against North Korea, most recently backing a Security Council ban of the country’s coal, iron, iron ore, lead and seafood exports. But the two countries opposed any measures that could destabilize North Korea, a stance Mr. Putin reaffirmed to Mr. Moon on Wednesday.

They said that sanctions had so far done little to stop North Korea from increasing its nuclear and missile capabilities, and that the country remained determined to build a nuclear arsenal despite President Trump’s threatening to rain down “fire and fury” on it if it continued threatening the United States.



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South Korean Navy vessels taking part in a drill on Monday. China and Russia want the United States and South Korea to suspend their joint annual military exercises in exchange for a North Korean moratorium on missile and nuclear tests. CreditSouth Korean Defense Ministry, via Getty Images

Mr. Moon himself has been a proponent of dialogue with North Korea. But as North Korea has escalated tensions recently with a series of missile tests, he has pushed for tougher new sanctions, hoping that they would force the North to return to the negotiating table.



Leominster Man Kills Brother In Fight Over Internet Bandwidth, Police Say

September 6, 2017 5:39 PM



Filed Under: LeominsterNathan RecordTim Record

LEOMINSTER (CBS) – A fight over internet bandwidth ended with a young man killing his older brother in Leominster, investigators said.

Tim Record, 20, was ordered held without bail Wednesday after pleading not guilty to the murder of his 23-year-old brother Nathan Tuesday evening.

Police were called to the family’s home on Lakeshore Drive for a report of a stabbing just before 7:30 p.m.

The Record family home on Lakeshore Drive (WBZ-TV)

According to court documents, witnesses told police the brothers were arguing over the use of digital devices which overwhelmed their internet bandwidth and that led to a fight.  They claimed Nathan punched Tim in the face and head and went to his room.

Tim Record then grabbed knives from the kitchen and stabbed Nathan in the chest, authorities said.

Nathan Record was rushed to the UMass Health Alliance Hospital in Leominster where he died.



Tim Record (WBZ-TV)

Tim Record was brought to the Leominster police station where he was questioned and later arrested.

He was wearing handcuffs and shackles at his arraignment in Leominster District Court Wednesday.

“I would say the family’s in mourning at this point, that‘s probably the best way to describe their situation. Very sad, very tragic,” Record’s attorney, Blake Rubin, told reporters.

Tim Record is due back in court October 6.




Dennis Rodman offers to help Trump, US 'straighten things out' with North Korea

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Posted on September 7, 2017 at 7:17 AM


In this undated photo published on Sept. 7, 2013, on the homepage of North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, talks with former NBA player Dennis Rodman during a dinner in North Korea. (AP)

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By Geoff Herbert

gherbert@syracuse.com,

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An unlikely mutual friend is offering to help President Donald Trump make peace with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

Dennis Rodman is offering to help the U.S. "straighten things out" with North Korea after the two countries have escalated tensions with threats of a potential nuclear war.

"I just want to try to straighten things out for everyone to get along together," the former NBA star told "Good Morning Britain" on Wednesday.

Rodman, who has visited the dictator in North Korea several times, most recently offered an olive branch on behalf of Trump with a gift of the real estate mogul's book "The Art of the Deal." Meanwhile, he's suggesting Trump talk to Kim to find common ground and avoid violent confrontation.

"The U.S. has been talking to North Korea, and paying them extortion money, for 25 years. Talking is not the answer!" Trump wrote on Twitter.

Kim is "just like everybody else," Rodman said. The basketball Hall of Famer, also known as "The Worm," told host Piers Morgan that his trips to Pyongyang included "cool things" like karaoke, skiing, horseback riding and laughing.

Rodman, who appeared on Trump's reality TV show "Celebrity Apprentice" twice, endorsed Trump for president back in 2015.

"I think if the president even tries to reach out for Kim, I think it will be a great possibility. Things can happen if Donald Trump, if they sit down, and have some type of mutual conversation," Rodman told "Good Morning Britain." "It don't have to be like a friendship type of conversation, just a mutual conversation saying, 'Hi, I would love to engage in some words and politics and over the history of your country and my country and just try to start some dialogue.' I think that'll open up maybe the door just a little bit."

Earlier this year, North Korea missile tests prompted Trump to threaten "fire and fury the likes of which the world has never seen." North Korea has since conducted more tests, including launching a midrange ballistic missile designed to carry nuclear bombs over Japan last week.


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