- 14:28 30/03/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on Tuesday on Russia joining UN Security Council sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear missile tests.
- 10:18 19/02/2010
North Korea is planning a show of force near its sea borders with the South as calls for a return to disarmament talks intensify, the Yonhap news agency said on Friday.
- 07:06 13/10/2009
There are indications that North Korea may be preparing to conduct new launches of short-range missiles from its west coast a day after missile tests from the east coast
- 20:35 18/09/2009
Alexander Zhebin, head of the Korean Studies Department at the Institute of the Far East, Russian Academy of Sciences
- 18:12 30/06/2009
North Korea seems to be pressing ahead with uranium enrichment, with a view to making more nuclear weapons, Yonhap agency said on Tuesday, citing South Korea's defense minister.
- 22:14 12/02/2007
A session of heads of delegations to six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program has started in Beijing after 17 hours of continuous negotiations, and will continue tomorrow, the press service at the talks said Monday.
- 21:10 04/10/2006
The foreign ministers of Russia and South Korea discussed by phone Wednesday North Korea's nuclear program, the Russian foreign ministry said.
- 19:48 03/10/2006
Moscow urges Pyongyang to show restraint over its intention to hold nuclear tests that could aggravate the situation on the Korean peninsula, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. Media reported earlier Tuesday that communist North Korea was on the verge of conducting nuclear tests.
- 19:15 12/09/2006
Moscow has no additional or new information about any intensification of nuclear research or production in North Korea, a Russian presidential aide said Tuesday.
- 14:05 21/07/2006
Moscow sees little chance for a resumption of six-party negotiations on the Korean peninsula's nuclear problem, especially a five-nation meeting without North Korea at an Asian security forum, a Foreign Ministry source said Friday.
- 18:43 12/07/2006
Russia's leadership went on the diplomatic offensive Wednesday with the foreign minister launching an attack on a draft UN resolution on North Korea and the president urging caution to avoid wrecking progress on the Iranian nuclear problem.
- 14:06 12/07/2006
International concerns over North Korea's recent ballistic missile tests will be high on the agenda of a meeting of world leaders in Russia this weekend, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.
- 12:47 12/07/2006
Russia's foreign minister criticized Wednesday a draft UN Security resolution on North Korea's controversial missile tests last week.
- 21:23 07/07/2006
Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Aso has asked his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, to support a UN Security Council resolution condemning North Korea's missile launches, the Japanese Embassy said Friday.
- 12:06 07/07/2006
Russia's most senior army officer said Friday that ballistic missiles test-fired by North Korea earlier this week fell in the ocean far away from the Russian coast.
- 10:05 07/07/2006
North Korea can only be returned to the nuclear non-proliferation regime through negotiations, Russia's foreign minister said Friday in an interview with a government newspaper.
- 19:21 06/07/2006
Russian President Vladimir Putin called on the world Wednesday to take a cautious approach to two countries suspected of nuclear ambitions: Iran and North Korea.
- 17:55 06/07/2006
Russia's radar network did not confirm the reports that North Korean missiles fell close to Russian borders, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday. "Our national monitoring system does not confirm the information that these missiles fell near Russian borders," Putin said during a Web cast.
- 17:53 06/07/2006
- 17:47 06/07/2006
- 15:03 06/07/2006
Iran's nuclear program and North Korea's recent ballistic missile test launches are interconnected, a member of the upper house of Russia's parliament said Thursday.
- 14:28 06/07/2006
- 13:17 06/07/2006
"Judging by the results of the North Korean missile launches, you could come to the conclusion that North Korea's missile technology is far from perfect, [and] there are huge mistakes in preparing and implementing both the launch and flight," Anatoly Perminov told journalists.
- 22:16 05/07/2006
- 22:12 05/07/2006
Russia's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that tests of ballistic missiles conducted by North Korea had threatened Pacific shipping and violated a missile launch moratorium previously declared by Pyongyang, but rejected the idea of sanctions.
- 19:55 05/07/2006
The Russian and Japanese foreign ministers agreed in a telephone conversation Wednesday to stay in close contact with other parties to the six-nation talks on North Korea, following the latest missile tests, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
- 19:41 05/07/2006
- 17:52 05/07/2006
North Korean Ambassador to Russia Pak Ui Chun, summoned to the Foreign Ministry Wednesday following his country's tests of ballistic missiles, said he was satisfied with talks at the ministry.
- 17:22 05/07/2006
North Korea's missile tests are designed to raise the country's profile and secure concessions at six-nation talks on the Korean peninsula's nuclear problem, a Russian expert said Wednesday.
- 16:26 05/07/2006
A senior member of Russia's lower house of parliament said Wednesday that sanctions against North Korea, which conducted several missile tests Tuesday night, would be incorrect in form and substance.
- 15:20 05/07/2006
Russia's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that tests of ballistic missiles conducted by North Korea had threatened Pacific shipping and violated a missile launch moratorium announced by Pyongyang.
- 15:15 05/07/2006
- 14:12 05/07/2006
"According to some information, North Korea launched 10 missiles of different classes," Chief of the General Staff Yury Balyuevsky, adding that they could have been intercontinental ballistic missiles.
- 12:15 05/07/2006
- 12:02 05/07/2006
"Conducting missile tests is an inalienable and sovereign right of the People's Democratic Republic of Korea, and nobody has the right to tell us whether we can do it or not," a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry told a news conference in Pyongyang.
- 11:17 05/07/2006
A senior member of the upper house of Russia's parliament urged the international community Wednesday to pursue a proactive dialogue with North Korea after it test-fired six missiles.
- 10:20 05/07/2006
Russia's Foreign Ministry reacted cautiously Wednesday to the missile tests conducted by North Korea and diplomats from the secretive communist state in Moscow claimed they had no prior knowledge of the launches.
- 19:26 22/06/2006
North Korea's ambassador to Moscow was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry over reports that the country was allegedly preparing to test a long-range ballistic missile, the ministry said Thursday.
- 19:24 20/06/2006
A Russian presidential aide said Tuesday the "imminent" launch of a North Korean ballistic missile was largely a matter of psychology. "Let them launch it first and then we will see whether it will fly, where it will fly, and whether it can reach its target in the first place," Igor Shuvalov said.
- 16:51 19/06/2006
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