Military maneuvers on Korean Peninsula are essentially provocative - Lukashevich

MOSCOW. March 6 (Interfax) - Russian Foreign Ministry official Alexander Lukashevich said the U.S.-Korean maneuvers in the region of the Korean Peninsula are provocative.

"Any military maneuvers in the region carried out by the North Korean military or traditional U.S.-Korean maneuvers are essentially provocative," Lukashevich told a briefing in Moscow.