“We are ready to conduct constructive negotiations with North Korea,” TASS quoted him as saying.

At the same time, Palladino refused to comment on reports about the alleged restoration of the Sohe test-missile test range.

Earlier, national security adviser to the President of the United States, John Bolton, said that the American side would tighten sanctions against the DPRK if the North Korean authorities do not go for denuclearization.

In early March, Yevgeny Kim, a leading researcher at the Center for Korean Studies at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, assessed the possible new meeting of the leaders of the United States and DPRK Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un in a conversation with NNS.