The United Nations Security Council has granted a sanctions exemption for a joint Korean rail project, South Korea announced Saturday. North and South Korea plan to work together to survey sections of railroad tracks in North Korea with an eye toward modernizing and connecting them across the demilitarized zone (DMZ) to South Korean transit.
Though a groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled before year's end, the survey will not make significant progress unless the United States also grants a sanctions exemption. While Seoul has pushed for this sort of small-scale rapprochement with Pyongyang, Washington has demanded steps toward denuclearization as a precondition of sanctions relief.
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