Moscow, Seoul Resume Talks On Possible Gas Pipeline Across North Korea - Trade Envoy

Moscow, Seoul Resume Talks on Possible Gas Pipeline Across North Korea - Trade Envoy

Moscow and Seoul have resumed discussion of a possible project that implies laying gas pipeline from Russia to South Korea across North Korea, Russian Trade Representative in South Korea Mikhail Bondarenko told Sputnik on Tuesday.

VLADIVOSTOK (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 11th September, 2018) Moscow and Seoul have resumed discussion of a possible project that implies laying gas pipeline from Russia to South Korea across North Korea, Russian Trade Representative in South Korea Mikhail Bondarenko told Sputnik on Tuesday.

"We are trying to defreeze it now. It is a very costly and politically risky project. But after South Korean president's trip to us, it is again being discussed. Back then, we did not even discuss it, it was suspended, but now we are returning to it, we are calculating it," Bondarenko said on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF).

The fourth EEF kicked off earlier on Tuesday and will last through Thursday on the island of Russky in Vladivostok. Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency is the general information partner of the forum.