South Korea Announces Rail Project to Extend to the DMZ
The only problem with the proposed Inter-Korean Railway project is that the North Koreans have not agreed to it yet. However, I suspect that this will be part of an effort to restart tourism to the Kumgang Resort in North Korea that the Moon administration will eventually try to circumvent sanctions to do if they are not dropped by the time this railway extension is completed:
The South Korean government on Monday held a ceremony to reconnect its railroad system to the North’s, marking the second anniversary of the inter-Korean summit at Panmunjom in 2018.
South Korea’s railway on its eastern coast, called the Northern East Sea Line, will be extended by a total of 110.9 kilometers (69 miles) from its current northernmost point in Gangneung all the way to Jaejin Station in Goseong County, Gangwon, the last stop on South Korean territory below the military demarcation line with the North.
Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul, who led the ceremony, in an opening address called the construction of the railway a “Korean Peninsula New Deal” project meant to “inaugurate a new age in which the continent meets the ocean.”
Joong Ang Ilbo
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I have wasted my life working for and with the Koreans…should have just worked from home for $98 bucks.
I’m certain that kim fatty the third will demand that the South inspect the road bed and tracks and insist they pay him millions of won to fix it, which of course will go straight into more nukes and his Swiss bank account that daddy probably had opened for him when he went to school there.
I heard a story from an older Korean in Seoul who told of the Station Master in Wonsan seeing the schedules in June 1950 and, a week prior to the war, selling everything for gold, packing up extended family (and a few trusted friends including my source) on a “tourist vacation” to Pusan. IIRC, he said he ended up shipping most of his family to the eastern parts of the US.
The funny stories one hears about trains…
I guess rail has go to be cheaper to send those delicious Jeju tangerines.
Speaking trains and the Korean War; At the circle in the center of Kaesong small arms fire fell near Darrigo’s jeep. Looking off to the west, Darrigo saw a startling sight-half a mile away, at the railroad station which was in plain view, North Korean soldiers were unloading from a train of perhaps fifteen cars. Some of these soldiers were already advancing toward the center of town. Darrigo estimated there were from two to three battalions, perhaps a regiment, of enemy troops on the train. The North Koreans obviously had relaid during the night previously pulled up track on their side of the Parallel and had now brought this force in behind the ROK’s north of Kaesong while their artillery barrage and other infantry attacked frontally from Songak-san. The 13th and 15th Regiments of the N.K. 6th Division delivered the attack on Kaesong. (https://history.army.mil/books/korea/20-2-1/SN03.HTM)
@Flyingsword
Now, their agent in the Blue House will do it for them.
J6, well commie moon already created breach lanes in the DMZ and removed the obstacles south of the southern border fence, so I guess laying track is the next logical step. Like you say, do nK’s work for them.
Drivin’ my train, high on cocaine
Moon Jae-In you better watch your speed.
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
and you know that notion
just crossed mymind.
Rocketman for the 3-pointer!
It won’t reopen. Too many questions about the street kids and black markets around the stations
Kangaji, you may have a higher opinion of human nature than some of us.