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Article: Russia opposes expanding US military presence in Korean Peninsula
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- February 4, 2003
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Russia opposes expanding US military presence in Korean Peninsula
MOSCOW, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman
Alexander Yakovenko said on Tuesday that Russia is against expansion
of the US military presence in the Korean Peninsula.
"We are convinced that any expansion of the US military presence
on the Korean Peninsula and around it as an element of increasing
pressure on North Korea (DPRK) would play a negative role," Yakovenko
was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying in a statement.
"This would not advance a desired settlement of the problem
through negotiations but could provoke a retaliatory response
instead," he noted.
"There is no and cannot be an ...