MOSCOW. Sept 5 (Interfax) - Russia will use the negotiation channels with Pyongyang to the full, as well as with China, the United States, Japan and South Korea to settle the situation on the Korean Peninsula, Russian Federation Council International Affairs Committee Chairman Konstantin Kosachyov said.
"The president clearly stated our line of policy: North Korea should stay within the limits established by the global community, one needs to act carefully no to provoke the North Korean government and the main task is to return to the negotiations process. Russia has the negotiations channel with Pyongyang and we will use it to the full, by no means one should allow developing the crisis in the inter-Korean relations, especially the military one," Kosachyov told Interfax on Monday, commenting on the information on North Korea's another ballistic missile launch.
North Korea tends to launch its rockets in wrong time in the context of international situation, Kosachyov said.
"This certainly enhances the impression of the blatant provocations. The North Korean issue was a topic of discussion at the meeting of many leaders as part of the G20 summit in Hangzhou (just prior to the missile launches it was discussed by the Chinese and South Korean leaders). And objectively no one facilitates the rapprochement of the positions of such different countries as Russia, the U.S., Japan and South Korea as Pyongyang itself," he said.
He said he believes that not only North Korea is responsible for these events, the South Korean plans on deployment of the THAAD missile defense system "is also a provocation, no smaller in caliber than the ballistic missile launches," he said.
"Even taking into account that the launches are conducted violating the requirements of the UN Security Council on resolutions 1695, 1718, 1874, 2087, 2094 and 2270. However, one should understand that Pyongyang cannot be made to cease its launches by force or provocations, it is not that kind of state, not that kind of mentality," he said.
He said only just recently South Korea adopted a law on protection of rights of the North Korean residents and Seoul plans to compose a list of violators of human rights in North Korea, similarly to the American one.
"Numerous examples how the human rights issues become a reason to intervene in with the affairs of the sovereign states, to the point of 'humanitarian interventions,' which are often limited to a replacement of one violations with others, but with participation of the foreign forces, all that does not facilitate the normalization of the political climate in the peninsula," he said.
In any case, he said, the keys to settle the issue are in negotiations.
"I believe, our diplomatic activity in the dialogue with the main partners, China, the U.S., Japan, South Korea will increase, both as part of the UN Security Council and the bilateral regime. The risks are growing and North Korea is quite capable of provoking the conflict, which will evolve into a strictly inter-Korean format. I believe in discretion of our partners, but it is better not to try to test their patience constantly," he said.
Pyongyang launched three ballistic missiles in the Sea of Japan, the South Korean Yonhap News Agency said with a reference to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff.
It was reported that the information on the type and range of the missiles are not available.