MOSCOW, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida discussed Monday in a telephone conversation the recent nuclear test conducted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Russia stressed the need for faithful implementation of the U.N. Security Council resolutions, and the importance of "political and diplomatic settlement of the situation within the context of the overall military and political detente in Northeast Asia," the ministry said in a statement.
The DPRK's state-run television reported early Friday that the country had conducted a nuclear warhead explosion test. It was Pyongyang's fifth nuclear test, which followed the previous one by eight months.
The Russian Foreign Ministry reacted on Friday with a statement strongly condemning the test and confirming Moscow's readiness for a "very tight coordination of steps aiming to elaborate an international response to Pyongyang's provocative actions."
