The Russian Foreign Ministry commented on the plans of the DPRK and the DPR for cooperation

Earlier, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that the republic was negotiating with Pyongyang on the arrival of builders from the DPRK.

Ilyichev recalled that international restrictions established by UN Security Council resolutions apply to attracting labor from North Korea.

“It is necessary, however, to take into account that they apply to the member states of the world organization, which the people’s republics of Donbass are not currently,” he told RIA Novosti.

According to him, "the parameters of the proposed cooperation between the Donetsk People's Republic and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ... lie in the plane of the bilateral relations of these independent states, so you need to contact Donetsk and Pyongyang for details."

Earlier, Russian Ambassador to Pyongyang Alexander Matsegora said that the Russian Embassy is ready, if necessary, to provide mediation services for the development of relations between the Republics of Donbass and the DPRK.

According to him, the staff of the embassies have already established business relations and are working on issues of bilateral and trilateral cooperation in various fields.

It was also reported that the DPRK Ambassador to Moscow, Sin Hong Chul, and the head of the DPR representative office in Russia, Olga Makeeva, discussed the development of economic cooperation at a meeting in late July.

On July 13, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea recognized the independence of the Luhansk People's Republic, as well as the Donetsk People's Republic.

On June 16, Pushilin said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad announced the start of the procedure for recognizing the DPR by Damascus.