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Fears that a dormant volcano may awaken prompted a rare meeting of scientists from North and South Korea this week.
Seismologists and volcanologists from the two nations met at the border town of Munsan to discuss the threat posed by mount Baekdu, which straddles the border between North Korea and China.
It has not erupted since 1903, but both governments are concerned that Japan's recent earthquake may have destabilised the tectonic plates the mountain sits on.
The shared threat is not likely to lead to more general friendly relations between the two countries, says Hyunga Kim, a Korean studies researcher at the Australian National University in Canberra, who is currently in Seoul. "I don't have any particular expectations," she says.
As the plans were announced, South Korea was beginning military exercises 30 kilometres from the border.