There is no sign of an easy solution to the North Korean crisis, Russia's foreign minister said today during a visit to Pyongyang, where he is expected to urge the communist state not to restart its nuclear arms plant, according to Reuters. Pyongyang kicked out U.N. nuclear inspectors and threatened to resume operations at a nuclear facility that makes bomb-grade plutonium last week after the U.N. Security Council condemned the North for launching a long-range rocket on April 5. "We shouldn't be controlled by our emotions. It's a complicated situation on the Korean peninsula," a Russian diplomat quoted Lavrov as saying, after talks with North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui-chun in Pyongyang. The diplomat was speaking to Reuters via telephone from North Korea. Lavrov, who is scheduled to visit Seoul on Friday, decided to fly to Pyongyang after the North also threatened to quit six-country nuclear disarmament talks in anger over U.N. Security Council censure for its rocket launch. "Russia's position is that all sides in the six-party talks should concentrate on the search for solutions that could reactivate the talks. It's not an easy task, each and every side has its own truth," Lavrov was quoted as saying by the diplomat.
