Overview

• Russia’s assessment was issued in an official Foreign Ministry readout of Sergey Lavrov’s talks with South Korea’s foreign minister Cho Hyon during the 80th UN General Assembly.
• The statement characterized US and Asian allies’ military activity directed at the DPRK as provocative and part of a push to intensify sanctions-and-force pressure on Pyongyang.
• Lavrov emphasized what he called the no‑alternative need for dialogue grounded in Korean Peninsula realities to build a long-term mechanism for regional stability.
• RIA Novosti reported the ministry’s wording, which offered no independent corroboration of the recent military activity it described.
• Separately, Yonhap reported that Cho asked Moscow to protect South Korean companies operating in Russia and urged Russia to halt military cooperation with North Korea.