North Korea and Russia have agreed to resume six-party nuclear talks during their summit on Wednesday in Siberia.

According to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s spokesman, North Korea said it was prepared to resume the multilateral talks with no conditions and place a moratorium on its tests of weapons of mass destruction.

Following the summit, Medvedev said that he had candid and substantive discussions with his North Korean counterpart and that North Korea could agree to building a natural gas transportation pipeline that connects Russia, North Korea, and South Korea.

Medvedev said that as far as he knows, North Korea is interested in the implementation of the three-way pipeline project.

Kim and Medvedev held talks at a military facility in Ulan Ude. Following the summit, the North's leader's special train appeared to have departed from a station in Ulan Ude at 7:20 p.m. and was seen traveling in the direction of eastern Siberia. Local experts say that Kim is likely to go through China to go back to his country without stopping at Russia’s city of Vladivostok. Some say that there still is a chance that Kim Jong-il will meet with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Vladivostok to hold talks.