MOSCOW, November 19 (RIA Novosti) – Russian and North Korean officials met in Moscow on Tuesday to discuss the situation on the Korean Peninsula and the possibility of three-party economic initiatives with South Korea, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov and North Korea’s ambassador to Russia Kim Yong Jae “exchanged opinions regarding the current situation on the Korean Peninsula,” where North and South Korea have technically remained at war since 1953 and where tensions between the two countries flared up repeatedly this summer.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who visited South Korea last week, said that three-party cooperation between Moscow, Pyongyang and Seoul would help improve relations between the South and the isolated North.
In September, Russia reopened a railway link with North Korea as part of a plan being pushed by the Kremlin to connect the railway systems of both Koreas and link them into the Trans-Siberian Railway.
