--- description: Russian President Vladmir Putin has warned that the Korean peninsula in at risk of "large-scale conflict. title: Vladimir Putin Says Trump's Approach to North Korea Is 'Futile' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4945926a8255cc08/6988dc2422fb85266de22a64/putin-trump-north-korea-brics.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [conflict](/tag/conflict/) ## conflict Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Vladimir Putin Says Trump's Approach to North Korea Is 'Futile' by [Rachel Lewis](/author/rachel-lewis/) ## Rachel Lewis Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 1, 2017 11:32 AM CUT  Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his meeting with Governor of Sevastopol Dmitry Ovsyannikov. Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his meeting with Governor of Sevastopol Dmitry Ovsyannikov.Mikhail Svetlov - ;Getty Images by [Rachel Lewis](/author/rachel-lewis/) ## Rachel Lewis Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 1, 2017 11:32 AM CUT Russian President [Vladmir Putin](http://time.com/4903521/vladimir-putin-donald-trump-survey/ "undefined") has warned that the Korean peninsula is at risk of “large-scale conflict” if further pressure is put on North Korea to halt its nuclear program. “Russia believes that the policy of putting pressure on Pyongyang to stop its nuclear missile \[program\] is misguided and futile,” [Putin wrote in a letter](http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/55487 "undefined") published on the Kremlin’s website ahead of a summit of [the so-called BRICS nations](http://time.com/4923837/brics-summit-xiamen-mixed-fortunes/?xid=homepage "undefined") next week. “The region’s problems should only be settled through a direct dialogue of all the parties concerned without any preconditions,” Putin added. “Provocations, pressure and militarist and insulting rhetoric are a dead-end road.” President Donald Trump said recently that “all options” were on the table after [North Korea fired a missile](http://time.com/4919757/north-korea-missile-launch-japan/ "undefined") over the northern island of Japan. It was the latest in a series of missile tests and [threats against the U.S.](http://time.com/4904279/guam-north-korea-enveloping-fire/ "undefined") [Experts now believe](http://time.com/4845411/north-korea-missile-us-nuclear/ "undefined") that North Korean missiles have the capacity to reach the U.S. mainland. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4924630/vladimir-putin-donald-trump-north-korea/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4924630/vladimir-putin-donald-trump-north-korea/"},"headline":"Vladimir Putin Says Trump's Approach to North Korea Is 'Futile'","datePublished":"2017-09-01T11:32:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T17:15:15.631Z","description":"Putin says it could spark a \"large-scale conflict\"","url":"https://time.com/4924630/vladimir-putin-donald-trump-north-korea/","keywords":["conflict","North Korea","brics","Kremlin","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4945926a8255cc08/6988dc2422fb85266de22a64/putin-trump-north-korea-brics.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rachel Lewis","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rachel-lewis/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4945926a8255cc08/6988dc2422fb85266de22a64/putin-trump-north-korea-brics.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Russian President Vladimir Putin Visits Sevastopol","caption":"Russian President Vladimir Putin Visits Sevastopol","creditText":"Mikhail Svetlov - ;Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/conflict/","name":"conflict"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4924630/vladimir-putin-donald-trump-north-korea/","name":"Vladimir Putin Says Trump's Approach to North Korea Is 'Futile'"}}]}] ```