Putin and Kim agree Trans-Siberian strategy

MEETING in Moscow on August 4 (p572), Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean President Kim Jong-il backed plans to connect the Korean rail network into the Trans-Siberian landbridge corridor, confirming that ’the two countries will start working on reconnecting [the two lines] in the very nearest future.’

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