Editing Paektu Mountain (section)

=== Research on upcoming eruption ===
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In 2011, experts in North and South Korea met to discuss the potential for a significant eruption in the near future, as the last eruption was in 1903 and the volcano is expected to erupt around every 100 years.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Stone |first=Richard |year=2011 |title=Vigil at North Korea's Mount Doom |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.334.6056.584 |journal=[[Science Magazine]] |volume=334 |issue=6056 |pages=584–588 |doi=10.1126/science.334.6056.584 |pmid=22053023 |bibcode=2011Sci...334..584S |access-date=16 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Sam Kim |first=Yonhap |date=22 March 2011 |title=S. Korea agrees to talks on possible volcano in N. Korea |agency=Yonhap News Agency |url=http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2011/03/22/55/0401000000AEN20110322003500315F.HTML |access-date=22 March 2011}}</ref> The Government of North Korea invited several volcanologists, including James Hammond, [[Clive Oppenheimer]], and [[Kayla Iacovino]], to study the mountain for recent volcanic activity.<ref>{{cite news |date=16 September 2014 |title=Rumbling volcano sees N. Korea warm to the West |publisher=[[CBS News]] |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mount-paektu-scientists-granted-access-to-mysterious-north-korean-volcano/}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hammond |first1=James |date=9 February 2016 |title=Understanding Volcanoes in Isolated Locations |url=http://www.sciencediplomacy.org/perspective/2016/understanding-volcanoes-in-isolated-locations |journal=Science & Diplomacy |volume=5 |issue=1}}</ref> This made Iacovino the first foreign female researcher to conduct research in North Korea.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fleur |first=Nicholas St |date=9 December 2016 |title=Only a Rumbling Volcano Could Make North Korea and the West Play Nice |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/science/north-korea-mount-paektu-volcano.html |access-date=10 September 2020 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr. Kayla Iacovino: In the footsteps of a volcano scientist |url=http://discov-her.com/en/article/dr-kayla-iacovino-in-the-footsteps-of-a-volcano-scientist |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180213022353/https://discov-her.com/en/article/dr-kayla-iacovino-in-the-footsteps-of-a-volcano-scientist |archive-date=13 February 2018 |access-date=10 September 2020 |website=discov-her.com}}</ref> The researchers began publishing their research in 2016 and in February 2020 formed the Mt. Paektu Research Center.<ref>{{Cite web |date=19 March 2018 |title=Publications |url=https://themprc.org/publications/ |access-date=25 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>