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The project "Hasan-Radzhin" directly depends on the participation of the DPRK and the Republic of Korea, said Deputy Prime Minister - Plenipotentiary of the President of Russia in the Far Eastern Federal District Yuri Trutnev. This is reported by "Vesti: Primorye" referring to the Ministry of Regional Development.

"We considered the development of the project in the logic of bilateral cooperation, in the logic of reducing tensions on the Korean peninsula. And how these projects will be implemented is directly related to the international situation, with the position of South Korea, North Korea, how they will communicate with each other. This issue is complex, it must be solved in a political aspect. What is happening today, in my opinion, is counterproductive: economic sanctions against North Korea have been announced, but economic sanctions have never led to the development of friendship and cooperation, "commented Yury Trutnev.

The capacity of the section Khasan (RF) - Rajin (DPRK) and the terminal in the port of Rajin is 5 million tons of cargo per year. The terminal opened in July 2014, in 2016 it was reported that as a pilot project, Russian coal from Rajin to South Korea was sent by sea.

News source: www.vestiprim.ru