Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed...
Korea, including issuing export loans, if such financial aid facilitates North Korea"s nuclear weapons program and its proliferation activities."It is forbidden to take upon oneself new obligations to provide North Korea with grants, financial aid and cheap loans, with exception of those which are aimed either at pursuing humanitarian goals and ... denuclearization or directly oriented at the needs of the civilian population," the decree said.
The decree prohibits Russian higher education institutions from providing North Korean citizens with knowledge that could help the country advance its nuclear weapons program and develop its nuclear weapons delivery systems.
The six-party talks on Pyongyang"s nuclear ambitions involving the two Koreas, China, the United States, Russia and Japan came to a halt last April when North Korea walked out of negotiations in protest at the United Nations" condemnation of a missile test.