Asia
ROK, DPRK join hands for volcano research
Updated: 2011-03-29 10:20
(Xinhua)
MUNSAN/SEOUL - The Republic of Korea (ROK) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) teamed up Tuesday for a rare joint research into volcanic activities at the highest mountain on the Korean peninsula.
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Four ROK's geologists and earthquake experts will sit down with DPRK volcano experts in a meeting first proposed by Pyongyang, which many here say might potentially signify a thaw in frozen inter-Korean ties.
The 2,740-meter mountain, which sits on the DPRK border with China, last erupted in 1903 and has since been inactive, but experts have warned it might have an active core and a potential eruption would create a greater chaos than the Icelandic volcanic eruption last year.
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