Russia unlikely to agree to accept radioactive materials from North Korea - Ambassador

Moscow is highly unlikely to agree to store radioactive materials from North Korea if Pyongyang does fulfill its pledge to completely denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, Russian Ambassador to North Korea Alexander Matsegora said in an interview with Sputnik.

"As for the possibility of radioactive materials from North Korea being brought to Russia, I can hardly imagine a situation where we would agree to this," the diplomat said.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un committed to the complete denuclearization of North Korea following the summit with US President Donald Trump in Singapore last June, in exchange for security guarantees to the country and the suspension of joint US-South Korean military drills. However, no concrete steps have been made in this direction by either party.