Q&A What threat does North Korea pose to South Korea? According to South Korean media, Moon asked Putin to help “tame” North Korea, as the international community considers its response to Pyongyang’s sixth nuclear test on Sunday. While he condemned North Korea’s provocations, Putin said further sanctions would be useless and ineffective, describing the measures as a “road to nowhere”. “We have to make North Korea change its current policy and understand that there is no bright future if North Korea continues the present policy,” Abe told reporters before he left Tokyo. “The risk-off trade really is North Korea front and centre,” said Jeff Zipper, managing director of investments at US Bank Private Wealth Management.

Source: The Guardian September 06, 2017 01:38 UTC