A special envoy from South Korea suggested on Monday the establishment of a northeast Asian economic bloc along with Russia and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), news agencies reported.
Lee Jae-oh, envoy of South Korean President-elect Lee Myung-bak, will discuss the South Korean president-elect's plan to create a northeast Asian economic community during his six-day visit to Russia.
"We propose establishing a joint peace and economic committee between South and North Korea and Russia, which could serve as a platform to discuss peace and economic issues in the region," RIA news agency quoted the senior diplomat as saying at a meeting with Konstantin Pulikovsky, co-chair of a Russian-South Korean intergovernmental commission.
Lee, who is the fourth envoy to Japan, China, Russia and the United States, delivered a letter from his boss to the Russian President Vladimir Putin via Putin's foreign affairs adviser, RIA said.
The South Korean official also said his country would like to participate in developing Russia's East Siberia, in the oil, gas sector and the Trans-Korean Railway.
DPRK agreed last December to hold trilateral talks with Russia and South Korea on a railway project linking the Korean peninsula with Russia's Trans-Siberian Railway, which will allow freight trains to deliver containers from South Korea to Europe via DPRK and Russia in some 10 to 12 days.
South Korea and DPRK resumed a regular train service last year between the two countries after a break of more than half a century.
Source: Xinhua
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