Russia ready to send a N. Korean cosmonaut into space - Peskov

BLAGOVESHCHENSK. Sept 13 (Interfax) - Russia is ready to send a North Korean cosmonaut on a space mission and has told North Korean leader Kim Jong Un about it, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

"We said that if the North Korean side wishes so, a North Korean cosmonaut could be trained and sent to outer space," Peskov said on Wednesday.