South Korea seeks to lay railroad through North in unity plan

Seoul

SOUTH Korea is seeking to link its railroad to North Korea with the rest of the continent as part of a plan for the potential unification of the peninsula.

The South's Unification Ministry called on the North to discuss the extension into China of the 27-kilometer (17-mile) track that spans the border, it said in an e-mailed statement on Monday. Separately, the unification, foreign and defence ministries presented President Park Geun Hye with a plan to enact a law to increase the number of civil servants trained to prepare for an eventual joining of the nations.