Nuclear North Korea 'is threat to Russia'

A top Russian diplomat said today that North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme was a threat to Russia and warned Pyongyang not to carry out another atomic test.

In unusually strong language from Moscow, just days before the resumption of six-nation talks on curbing Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov said a nuclear-armed North Korea was a threat to the population of Russia’s neighbouring Far East.