11 Aug 2017 17:28

Moscow doesn't accept N. Korea as country armed with nuclear weapons

DVORIKI (Vladimir region). Aug 11 (Interfax) - Russia does not accept North Korea as a nuclear power, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

"North Korea is saying now that it has all legitimate rights to create nuclear weapons, that it has even already created them. You know our stance, we don't accept a nuclear-powered North Korea possessing nuclear weapons," Lavrov said at the Territory of Meanings on the Klyazma Youth Forum.

The minister recalled that North Korea had signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and then withdrawn from it.