North Korea–Russia Relations
North Korea and Russia first established diplomatic relations on October 12, 1948 shortly after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was proclaimed. Though the two were close allies during the Cold War, relations between them have loosened since the breakup of the Soviet Union. The relationship gained some importance again during the 2000s.
Russia has invested considerable amounts of capital into numerous large-scale, long-term international infrastructure projects involving the Korean peninsula, such as oil and gas pipelines and Trans-Korean and Trans-Siberian railroads junctions. These projects are of crucial importance to the economic revitalization of the Russian Far East, and in the case of a new Korean War, these projects—and Russian economic interests—would be severely damaged. The two states share a border along the lower Tumen River (Туманная), which is 17 kilometers (11 mi) long and was formed only in 1860 when the Tsar Alexander II acquired territory ceded from China in the Convention of Peking.
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