Pyongyang earlier announced that it had conducted an underground nuclear test in defiance of a UN Security Council statement urging it to give up nuclear test plans and return to disarmament talks, and earlier international warnings.
"There is no mention of the use of force [in the proposal]," Russia's envoy to the UN Vitaly Churkin said.
The diplomat said that Russia supported a pragmatic approach to a draft UN resolution on the reclusive communist state.
"We must not act on emotion," Churkin said, although Russian President Vladimir Putin had earlier strongly criticized the Communist regime's nuclear test and urged country's leadership to return to the six-nation nuclear talks.
"Russia absolutely condemns the test in North Korea, which has inflicted great damage to the non-proliferation process," Putin said.
North Korea, South Korea, Russia, Japan, China and the United States have been engaged in talks on the nuclear issue since 2003, discussing aid and security guarantees for the secretive regime in exchange for a renunciation of its nuclear program.
But talks stalled last November over Pyongyang's demands that the U.S. lift sanctions imposed on it for its alleged involvement in counterfeiting and other illegal activities.
