“We never recognize North Korea as a nuclear state,” RIA Novosti quotes Antonov.
He noted that Russia welcomes the “all positive efforts being made by the current administration” of the United States to resolve the situation on the Korean Peninsula.
At the same time, Antonov suggested that perhaps Washington wanted to get more during the US-DPRK summit in Hanoi.
“We would also like to see peace and prosperity on the Korean Peninsula. But it is not so easy, ”the diplomat added.
It became known earlier that following the summit of the American President Donald Trump and the DPRK leader Kim Jong Un in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi an agreement was not reached, but the parties are waiting for the next meeting.
Political analyst and head of the Center for Settlement of Social Conflicts, Oleg Ivanov, in an interview with Inforeactor, summed up the summit of the United States - the DPRK.