Article: (LEAD) N. Korea may conduct nuclear test next month: Russian lawmaker.

MOSCOW, May 3 (Yonhap) -- North Korea may conduct a nuclear test next month, a top Russian parliamentary leader warned on Tuesday, saying he will visit Pyongyang this week to discuss the matter. "There are grounds now to believe that North Korea may test a nuclear device already in June," Konstantin Kosachyov, head of the international affairs committee at the State Duma, the lower chamber of Russia's parliament, said in a press conference.Kosachyov said he will visit Pyongyang on April 5-7 to meet top North Korean leaders such as parliamentary chief Kim Yong-nam to discuss the issue. He did not give any evidence of the North's possible nuclear test, but said ...

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