MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russia does not have data about preparations in the DPRK for nuclear tests, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Yury Baluyevsky said at a meeting with Chief of Staff of the Japanese Self-Defense Force Hajime Massaki.
"We shall check this information jointly with my Japanese colleague," Baluyevsky said in view of the reports of the foreign press about the possibility of nuclear tests in the DPRK this year.
"Everything possible must be done to prevent this test," Baluyevsky told reporters.
"We must do everything we can for this purpose. I am sure that this is not only our aim, but the aim of my Japanese colleague, too, and of all the states which take part in the six-sided negotiations. We understand the consequences it might entail," Baluyevsky said.
On February 10, the DPRK government spoke about the creation of its own nuclear weapons and the impossibility of its participation in the six-sided negotiations with the USA, Russia, China, Japan and South Korea. These steps were named as defensive measures, aimed at protecting the country from the United States.
According to the information of the Western press, satellites have detected the construction of an underground tunnel on the eastern coast of the DPRK. On the basis of these data the USA supposed that preparations were going on there for nuclear tests.
