Even if the project were to get past political opposition, there’s also the matter of cost: updating more than 3,000 miles of tracks in North Korea, which Kim Jong Un admitted were in an “embarrassing” state, is expected to run in the hundreds of millions of dollars at minimum. South Korean officials have said they expect to foot the bill using North Korean labor and materials but that costs will be recouped once the trains are up and running.
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times