The Greater Tumen Initiative (GTI) – as the only example of an intergovernmental mechanism for economic cooperation in Northeast Asia – grows in significance in the context of Russia’s pivot to Asia and its endeavors to develop the Far East. However, according to Russian experts at a recent meeting in Moscow, it has not yet been fully integrated into the context of Russia’s policy on the Korean Peninsula.

Initiated by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in 1991 as a regional cooperation program (previously known as the Tumen River Area Development Program), the initiative was transformed into an