MOSCOW, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- The placement of the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense systems in South Korea will affect China and Russia, a Russian official said here on Friday.
"The placement of these missile defense systems affects the interests of not only Pyongyang, but also China and, to a certain extent, Russia," said Mikhail Ulyanov, the director of the department for nonproliferation and arms control of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
"We can see that the South Korean authorities, jointly with the United States, have been drastically escalating their military activities, which provokes Pyongyang," Ulyanov told a press conference in Moscow.
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