A Study on Building an Undersea Tunnel Transportation Network in the Northeast Asia

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Although China, Japan and Korea all locate in the Northeast region of Asia, there is no integrated land transport network till now which impedes the development of the nations and the region. In order to solve this problem, South Korea tried to connect the North Korea's railway and highway system to reach the Eurasia. But this plan encountered many difficulties, so a new plan of building an undersea tunnel to connect China, Korea and Japan has been put forward recently. By analyzing and comparing the former plan with the new undersea tunnel plan, this study surveys the feasibility of the undersea tunnel plan and does further analysis on the constraint factors and the predicted effects of the undersea tunnel network in Northeast Asia.