not the time to consider lifting the sanctions citing the continued missile tests. while russia property reporteex more a hue mabtarian issue are the they insist that u.n. sanctions not be lifted until north korea denuclearizes. keir. >> what this is is the playing out of what we talked about is the great power competition that we're seeing in the is russia and china against the united states. you can think of north korea if you like as the kid in the school yard who's smaller than everybody else but is good at getting the big kids to fight with each other. that's really the role that north korea is playing. the chinese and the russians do not want to see north korean getting back into a huge standoff with the u.s. the way that they did and it looked as if there might be a war which would be so devastating for the korean peninsula. chinese and russians don't want to see that, but they also in a confrontation with the u.s. and snorn playi