"Risk of Unprovoked Military Conflict on Korean Peninsula Growing"

The Korean Peninsula has been the site of an ongoing geopolitical crisis since April 2017, when Pyongyang test-launched an intermediate range ballistic missile and Washington responded by beginning a military buildup that has lasted through the rest of 2017.

The situation on the Korean Peninsula is characterized by an unprecedented level of tension, there is a growing danger of sliding toward an unprovoked conflict, Russian Ambassador-at-Large Oleg Burmistrov told Sputnik Thursday.

"The situation on the Korean Peninsula is characterized by an unprecedented level of tension, there is a growing danger of slipping into an armed conflict, unprovoked, but which may begin due to accidental circumstances," Burmistrov said.

The ambassador noted that in North-East Asia "so many various weapons have been accumulated, that in itself it [the region] is a powder keg."

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