Foreign Minister Taro Kono said he and Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov affirmed Monday in New York that Japan and Russia will work together, including at the U.N. Security Council, in addressing the threat from North Korea.

"The goal for both of us is the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," Kono told reporters after his roughly 30-minute meeting with Lavrov on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.

"Japan and Russia are of the same recognition that (this includes) the enforcement of (U.N. Security Council) resolutions," Kono said.