MOSCOW. June 6 (Interfax) - The elaboration of security guarantees for North Korea involving all interested sides should be the next step after the establishment of direct dialogue between Washington and Pyongyang, President Vladimir Putin said.
"The next phase is multifaceted cooperation among all stakeholders, first of all, to draft these security guarantees," Putin told the China Media Group in an interview.
"There are many opportunities for joint work both in a three-party and four-party format: we only have to move towards them," Putin said.
"And, of course, Russia has always proposed this, and it remains on the table: a trilateral economic project between Russia and the northern and southern parts of the Korean Peninsula. Primarily, these would be infrastructure projects, such as railway construction (actually, China could join them) between Russia, North Korea and South Korea. We are talking about pipelines. We can also think about building other energy facilities," he said.