Lee, Medvedev to cooperate on swap gossip pipeline venture
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on the Russian-South Korean forum.STORY HIGHLIGHTSThe swap gossip pipeline project willpower run stuck between the two nations through North Korea They can discuss the likelihood of supplying the South with surplus Russian electricity North and South Korea relations enjoy been strained since Pyongyang launched attacks on South Korea Seoul South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev pledged to cooperate on a swap gossip pipeline project with the intention of willpower run stuck between the two nations through North Korea, according to Seouls presidential work.The two leaders shared an understanding to facilitate the project to save Russian natural chatter through a pipeline via North Korea, if short of to the fore successfully, wish bring financial profit to all three countries and agreed to cooperate tightly to realize this, the Souths presidential workplace understood appearing in a statement later than a assembly appearing in St. Petersburg on Wednesday.An approved from Russias state-run chatter business Gazprom announced Monday with the purpose of it had reached an agreement with its South Korean counterpart Korea chatter Corp. within September to inaugurate construction of the pipeline within 2013 and start supplying chatter to the South within 2017, according to South Koreas Yonhap News Agency.