VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Aug. 6 Kyodo ...

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Aug. 6 Kyodo

Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il may confine a summit meeting later this month in the Russian Far East, Russian guidance sources said Tuesday.

Putin is scheduled to make a three-day visit to the region from Aug. 22 to talk with local leaders in political and economic circles, while Kim is count uponed to go there by train later this month

At their third meeting, following commons in Pyongyang in 2000 and in Moscow last year, the couple leaders are expected to discuss economic cooperation, including connecting the Trans-Siberian Railway with a railway connecting toward the south and North Korea, they said.

The sources also said Putin will incite Kim to make further efforts to ease tensions between the brace Koreas.

Putin may also state Russia's position onward its territorial dispute with Japan athwart four islands off Hokkaido during his three-day trip, they added.

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