Zhanna Nemtsova on Vladimir Putin

-Zhanna Nemtsova, daughter of slain opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Berlin, Germany, November 25, 2015.  REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch1-   11-26-15     Nemtsova has been unsuccessful in requests to have Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov questioned.  Kadyrov, who is loyal to Putin, has said he knew former Chechen policeman Zaur Dadayev, who has been detained (later found guilty of murder), and described him as a true patriot....

  “It was a political murder, though the investigation committee doesn’t want to admit this,” said Nemtsova, who left Russia in May after receiving death threats and is now working in Germany as a journalist for Deutsche Welle.   https://uk.reuters.com/article/russia-germany-nemtsov/putin-is-not-forever-says-daughter-of-slain-opposition-leader-idINKBN0TF1LN20151126

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1-11-18  Putin said Thursday he believes the crisis can be resolved without conflict.  He said Kim “is an absolutely competent and already mature politician” who has “solved his strategic task — he has a nuclear warhead and a global-range missile.”   Now, in his view, Kim is “cleaning up the situation, smoothing it, calming it.”  http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/putin-admits-kim-jong-won-latest-standoff-nuclear-weapons-article-1.3751426

http://thehill.com/policy/international/368506-putin-declares-north-korea-winner-in-latest-standoff-with-south-korea-us

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This picture from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) taken and released on January 1, 2018 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un delivering a New Year's speech at an undisclosed location.  Kim Jong-Un vowed North Korea would mass-produce nuclear warheads and missiles in a defiant New Year message on January 1 suggesting he would continue to accelerate a rogue weapons program that has stoked international tensions.   http://www.newsweek.com/kim-jong-un-finds-way-defuse-nuclear-standoff-trump-775406?utm_source=internal&utm_campaign=right&utm_medium=related1

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1-11-18  Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday welcomed recent progress in inter-Korean talks....Washington welcomed the talks as a first step towards resolving the crisis over North Korea's program to develop nuclear missiles capable of reaching the United States, but it has reiterated that any talks involving the U.S. must be aimed at the North's denuclearization.

However, Pyongyang said it would not discuss its nuclear weapons because they were aimed only at the United States and not its "brethren" in China, Russia and South Korea, showing that a diplomatic breakthrough to the crisis remains far off. REUTERS  http://www.todayonline.com/world/chinas-xi-supports-progress-inter-korean-talks-south-koreas-blue-house

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1-12-18  

Abe described threats from North Korea as part of the “most severe security environment since World War II.”   https://thediplomat.com/2018/01/japan-unimpressed-by-inter-korean-talks/

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