“We have no concrete plans to return nuclear weapons to the Korean peninsula. Arms were withdrawn from there several decades ago, and this is not being discussed now, ”TASS quoted him as saying.

Earlier, the former Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security, John Bolton, said that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un would not give up nuclear weapons in the current conditions.

In early September, the Pentagon reported that hypersonic as well as high-precision American missiles could be deployed in the early 2020s.