“Russia is the closest to their nuclear test range (some 150 kilometers to the Russian border) and to the water area where North Korean missiles fall,” Matsegora said, adding that there is a threat to Russia’s security. He said Moscow is aware which missiles and technology North Korea possesses, adding that Pyongyang does not notify Russia in advance of its plans to fire missiles or hold nuclear tests. Russia’s Role in US-North Korea Conflict © REUTERS / Leah Millis’Max Pressure’ on N Korea and Other Highlights of Trump’s State of the Union AddressMatsegora said that Moscow is not seeing itself as a mediator in the bilateral contacts between the United States and North Korea, noting that Pyongyang had not requested Russia’s mediation on the issue. “We are ready to facilitate the settlement from the point of view of making proposals. We can say that the Russian-Chinese roadmap is a kind of such proposal for mediation,” Matsegora said. © AFP 2019 / JUNG Yeon-JeA man watches a television news programme showing US President Donald Trump (C) and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (L) at a railway station in Seoul on August 9, 2017 ‘Double Freeze’ Plan He went on to add that the DPRK did not reject a roadmap on the Korean peninsula settlement proposed by Russia and China, but Pyongyang has its “own approaches,…