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South Korea seeks to lay railroad through North in unity plan

Published Tue, Jan 20, 2015 · 09:50 PM

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.