Moon Administration Claims It Will Work with China to Clear Fine Dust Pollution

This wants again has the appearance of the Korean government trying “to do something”:

President Moon Jae-in will seek measures with the Chinese government to tackle fine dust pollution here, a Cheong Wa Dae spokesman said Wednesday.

Moon ordered the government to “discuss with the Chinese government to come up with contingencies to minimize the impact of the fine dust,” according to presidential spokesman Kim Eui-kyeom, Wednesday. 

Moon said the two countries need to discuss joint dust-reducing measures, creating artificial rain over waters between the two countries and launching a fine dust forecast system. 

Citing China’s claim that fine dust from Korea drifts into Shanghai, Moon said, “making artificial rain over the Yellow Sea would help the Chinese side as well.”

Noh Young-min, presidential chief of staff who served as ambassador to China until recently, said “Beijing is bigger than the combined size of Seoul and Gyeonggi Province, but creates a massive artificial rain from dawn to night in the city.”

Korea Times

You can read more at the link, but I am confident that most ROK Heads realize that the Chinese government is not going to do anything to help pollution over Seoul. In fact if you read the article carefully the Chinese government is blaming the ROK for pollution over China!

The artificial rain idea the ROK government has been trying for years with no success. Yet the ROK Presidential chief of staff claims that the Chinese are doing this from dawn to night in Beijing. A quick look at a 14 day weather report for Beijing shows no to little chance of forecasted rain despite all the fine dust pollution.