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An old train near the DMZ, preserved where it was destroyed escaping from the North in the early 1950s.
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Examples of the old school alarm system along the DMZ fences (they're a little more high tech now)
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Korean civilians can only walk up the beginning of the Freedom Bridge, then it's blocked off. This is as close as regular tourists can get.
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Some Korean soldiers on leave and some regular folks that joined them improptu for a photo. Behind them are memorials and calls for peace.
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Korean civilians can only walk up the beginning of the Freedom Bridge, then it's blocked off. This is as close as regular tourists can get.
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The 38th parallel, Korean Peninsula, Panmunjeom, in the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea.
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The 38th parallel, Korean Peninsula, Panmunjeom, in the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea.
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The symbolism is instructive. The South Korean guards remain vigilent against the North. But the North Korean guards focus their attention inward to prevent their own citizens from making a break for it.
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The symbolism is instructive. The South Korean guards remain vigilent against the North. But the North Korean guards focus their attention inward to prevent their own citizens from making a break for it.
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Check out the North Korean soldiers goose stepping in the far distance on the DPRK side of the line. I'm pretty sure one of them is Kim Jong-il in disguise.
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North Korean tourists looking at us. Funny, they don't look like zombies from a distance.
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Inside the UN-controlled negotiation rooms sitting right on the dividing line, where SK and NK talk -- on the rare occasions they actually talk
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Inside the UN-controlled negotiation rooms sitting right on the dividing line, where SK and NK talk -- on the rare occasions they actually talk
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There's a whole series of UN and Switzerland affiliated box rooms along the literal military demarcation line in the JSA
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There's a whole series of UN and Switzerland affiliated box rooms along the literal military demarcation line in the JSA
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The North Korean flag in the distance. Pic looks like crap because my Canon isn't exactly designed to manage X12 zooming.
