SEOUL, May 3 (UPI) -- South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun wants to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss linking the Korean peninsula to the trans-Siberian railway.
Roh recently sent a personal letter to his Russian counterpart, asking him to visit South Korea for discussions on closer economic cooperation, Roh's office said Thursday.
The letter was delivered by former Prime Minister Han Myeong-sook, who traveled to Moscow last week to attend the state funeral of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
The presidential office declined to disclose the content of the letter, but according to local media, Roh wants to discuss linking the inter-Korean rail network to the trans-Siberian railway at the proposed summit.
South and North Korea have agreed to reconnect the cross-border railway that was severed during the 1950-53 Korean War.
The cross-border railway will reconnect the two Koreas' capitals and proceed on to Sinuiju, a major industrial city on North Korea's border with China.
It will connect to China, Mongolia and eventually Russia's trans-Siberian railway, through which South Korea could deliver products to Europe.
