The U.S. envoy for implementing U.N. Security Council sanctions against North Korea says Russia has renewed its support for sanctions to stop North Korea’s nuclear program.

Ambassador Philip Goldberg talked with reporters at the end of his first day of discussions with Russia's Foreign Ministry officials in Moscow.

Goldberg said that all members of the Security Council and its sanctions committee had a unified view about implementing sanctions against the North.

He added that the United States will likely expand its own sanctions list.