Only by 6-party talks among Russia, the US, China, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea can denuclearization of the Korean peninsula be achieved, says Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich. He told reporters on Thursday that Russia’s stance is to end provocative acts and resume 6-party talks to relieve the tension on the peninsula. Lukashevich said that a decision, recently approved by North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly, to consolidate North Korea’s status as a defensive nuclear state, has fueled the tension and perhaps impedes efforts to resume talks.

Top negotiators to the six-party talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue put their hands together during a meeting with the media in Beijing Sept. 30, 2007. (Photo: xinhua)

According to Lukashevich, Russia, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, considers North Korea’s violations of nuclear non-proliferation resolutions unacceptable.