South Korea hopes to have an ecological park it plans to build in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) equally straddle the two Koreas.
 
The plan, submitted by the Ministry of Unification to the National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee during a parliamentary inspection on Thursday, calls for the park to have zero-point-five square kilometers on each side, with the Military Demarcation Line at its center.
 
The Unification Ministry said it has earmarked 32-point-four billion won from this year’s Inter-Korean Cooperation Fund budget for the project. The total cost of the park has been estimated at 250 billion won.
 
The ministry said until an inter-Korean consensus is made on the park project proposal, it will work on advance preparations, including field inspections of candidate sites and drafting basic plans.
 
The Park Geun-hye administration announced a plan to build the DMZ World Eco-Peace Park in 2013 as part of efforts to turn the DMZ into a symbol of peace.