Russia calls North Korea test 'provocative'
Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned North Korea's latest nuclear test on Tuesday as "provocative."
But he stopped short of expressing support for imposing more UN sanctions on North Korea, and said Russia viewed them as "useless and ineffective."
Putin said it was "ridiculous" that the United States first slapped Russia with sanctions carried in the same bill that penalized North Korea, and "then asked us to help impose sanctions on North Korea."
North Korea's detonation of a hydrogen bomb on Sunday marked its most powerful nuclear test to date.
