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Gas Hydrates Inflame Seoul-Tokyo Relations

August 2008 | Industry News

The potential of gas hydrates to meet energy demand in Asia's most import dependent countries has reignited long smouldering tensions between South Korea and Japan over a group of islands located in the East Sea.

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