Russia, Two Koreas Resumed Talks On Trilateral Infrastructure Projects In 2018 - Moscow

Russia, North Korea, and South Korea have resumed discussions of large-scale trilateral infrastructure projects in 2018, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 22nd January, 2019) Russia, North Korea, and South Korea have resumed discussions of large-scale trilateral infrastructure projects in 2018, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

"A political dialogue between Russia, the Republic of Korea [South Korea], and the DPRK [North Korea] has been revived, and trilateral-format discussions of large-scale infrastructure projects have been resumed," the statement, dubbed Key Foreign Policy results in 2018, read.

The ministry went on to say that in 2018, the situation on the Korean Peninsula was developing in compliance with a road map designed by Russia and China, which envisaged "the settlement of nuclear and other problems in adherence to legal interests of all the Northeastern Asian states.

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Back in October, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow was ready to implement railway, energy, and pipeline projects with Seoul and Pyongyang.

In July, South Korean authorities announced that an old project of the Khasan-Rajin railway that would deliver cargo from Russia to the North Korean city of Rajin, so that it could then be shipped to South Korea by sea, would be resumed. The project was initiated back in 2000, but work on its implementation started only in 2008 and was suspended in 2016 as South Korea quit the project due to its concerns over Pyongyang's nuclear tests.