The South Korean government is set to fund research into new ways to gather geographic information about North Korea that can be practically used in inter-Korean economic cooperation and infrastructure construction projects, proposals recently showed.

The National Geographic Information Institute (NGII) last week announced a proposal for “Research on the establishment of a roadmap for spatial information to support infrastructure construction in a unified Korean peninsula.”

In the proposal, the NGII, under the auspices of the South Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT), detailed the need for the research project, indirectly admitting to failures in previous efforts to