The implementation of the second stage of the Korean Peninsula denuclearisation will make it possible to make solutions found in the course of the six-sided talks on the North Korean nuclear problem settlement irreversible, director of the first Asia department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Konstantin Vnukov said at a meeting of the Russian-South Korean Business Council on Friday Itar-Tass reported . "The coming second stage of the peninsula's denuclearisation is of key importance," the official stressed. "Its implementation will make the solutions found during the six-sided talks irreversible." It will "improve North Korea's bilateral relations with all participants in the "six," the diplomat added. According to him, "The idea of the six plenary meeting is supported in Russia and also meetings of foreign ministers of the countries participating in the talks in order to give an impulse to this process." Vnukov particularly stressed that the "work of the six (two Korean states, Russia, China, the United Stated and Japan) is not limited to nuclear issues." "We have started a dialogue on peace and security within the framework of the working group," the official said. "The settlement of the nuclear problem of the Korean Peninsula will help advance a number of promising economic projects," believes Vnukov. "I mean linking the Korean railway with Russia's Trans-Siberian Railway (TransSib), as well as possible paying of a gas pipeline across the North Korean territory to South Korea," he said. The diplomat noted that in the future it will also be possible "to transfer electric power from the Far East to Korean Peninsula.
