Posted on 04/07/2008 6:08:59 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
South Korea's new President Lee Myung Bak and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed Monday to push ahead with efforts to link the trans-Korean railway with the trans-Siberian railway and other tripartite economic cooperation projects involving North Korea, according to local media.
Lee and Putin exchanged views on the matter in a telephone conservation in which Lee also sought greater Russian efforts to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program, Yonhap News Agency quoted presidential spokesman Lee Dong Kwan as saying.
Lee expressed appreciation for Russia's cooperation in sending the first South Korean astronaut into space aboard a Russian spacecraft on Tuesday, saying the entire Korean people feel grateful, the report said.
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