North Korea: Putin In 'Chernobyl' Warning

Russia's president says a conflict between the two Koreas could make the infamous nuclear accident "seem like a fairy tale".

俄罗斯总统普京，若朝鲜事态升级，那么当年的“切尔诺贝利”核爆炸事故则仅仅是场“儿戏”，朝鲜半岛的冲突可能造成比1986年切尔诺贝利核灾更严重的破坏。。其他国家不应再刺激促使朝鲜半岛紧张局势朝更坏的方向演变。

The South Korea government gave a press conference this morning Seoul, only about 2 hours' boat journey from where we are now, they have been looking at intelligence reports suggesting activity at the nuclear site where there was a nuclear test back in February which effectively kicked off this latest crisis, and fire we find ourselves where we are now, it's one of a number of options i think, a number of scenarios that might play out over the coming week or so, and another underground nuclear test would of course be great hugely concerning, perhaps a missile test, a conventional missile test not a nuclear one which again they have been monitoring movements of missiles in North Korea using satellite images and spy planes and they have seen 2 missiles have been moved to the east of the country. The third and possibly most likely scenario is a conventional short artillery strike from the north into south Korea on a island like the one we are at right now, you can see behind me there is a South Korea naval vessel just off the island behind me, this is the island where there was a strike in 2010 by North Korea, 4 people died, 3 marines and 1 civilian and at the time South Korea chose not to retaliate, the South Korea government at the time, decision by them was it did not want to antagonize anything, they didn't retaliate, there is a big difference now though, there is a new government in Seoul, the Americans and that new government in Seoul have both pledged they will retaliate to any North Korea aggression, so if Kim Jung Un does decide to fire his artillery rounds which are placed just about 4 or 5 miles in North Korea, just over there, then there would be a retaliation and that could escalate things, so i think the tensions right now on the Korean peninsula are very very high and this week will be key.