Russia is threatening South Korea as it supposedly mulls countermeasures over Russia deploying North Korean troops.
Can South Korea be intimidated?
Kremlin propagandist and mouthpiece Maria Zakharova issues her warning:
鈥淭hey should think about the security consequences if it gets involved in the Ukrainian crisis," she said during a press briefing through an English-language interpreter.
"The Russian Federation will react on those aggressive steps, if our citizens are under threats, under peril."
"We sincerely hope that the Seoul authorities are guided by common sense,"
"We have a good experience of mutual understanding and cooperation in humanitarian and economic areas. We have different political, geopolitical views, but that hasn't been an obstacle for us to have good, humanitarian, educational and other times and to develop our cooperation in other areas," she added.
Zakharova dismissed the reports of the North's troop dispatch as "fake."
"The armed forces of North Korea exist, but you should turn to Pyongyang to identify their location," she said. "I cannot (understand) why there has been so many gossips, so many loud noises around this. This is a propaganda work."
"Russian cooperation with North Korea in military and other areas corresponds to international law ... That is the first and the second is that we don't inflict any damage to South Korea," she said.
"I cannot understand so much fuss about it coming from Seoul."
Source: Yonhap News Agency, in comments
