It wasn’t long after the Kim-Trump summit that the topic of the fabled natural gas pipeline which would connect South Korea to Russia via its northern neighbor was back on the cards.

Three days after the meeting, Russia’s state-owned Sputnik news service was already covering Gazprom’s interest, while adding that discussions on the project were being pushed by the South Korean side.

No doubt President Moon Jae-in of South Korea raised the topic, too, during his recent visit to the Russian capital, where he met his counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss infrastructure