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Gas-fuelled peace bid for Korean Peninsula

Reports have emerged that South Korea has proposed gas be piped from Russia to energy-starved North Korea in return for a verifiable end to its nuclear plans.

Gas-fuelled peace bid for Korean Peninsula

According to Reuters and Associated Press, a South Korean national security adviser, Ra Jong Yil, said the proposal was at an early stage and needed to be discussed with allies and North Korea.

"Gas could be drawn from either Irkutsk (Siberia) or Sakhalin (east Russia)," Ra was quoted as saying to the Financial Times.

Ra added gas could fuel thermal power stations and provide a peaceful alternative to Pyongyang's nuclear program, which Washington claimed was aimed at producing atomic weapons.

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