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The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)


Hopes for reunification


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Standing guard at the train station. Notice the destination.

The DMZ is a border established along a line running from the Han estuary northeast across the 38th parallel, with a no-man's land, 1.24 mi (2 km) wide and occupying a total of 487 sq mi (1,261 sq km), on either side of the boundary.


Guarding the DMZ


A model of Panmunjom

Dorasan: The northernmost train station. South Koreans, someday, will be able to go to Pyeongyang.


Outside Dorasan Station


President Bush's visit to Dorasan Station
with Kim Dae Jung


Guards at the station


Guards at the station


An old train, still waiting to be used


A work in progress. A sign shows the
two capitals of the two Koreas.


The list of names of people who donated to building this project.

 

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Eastern Voyages

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Guarding the DMZ



Taking a train into the underground tunnel that the North Koreans never finished. The tunnel was built to
invade South Korea.


A model of the DMZ

Tunnel #3

In 1974, a North Korean defected to the South and told of a plot by the North Koreans to invade South Korea. The way that they would accomplish this would be to drill a tunnel from the DMZ, under the DMZ and then straight to Seoul where they would pop out and invade. Sound ridiculous? It was true. The South Koreans discovered three tunnels. The North Koreans had drilled and blasted through limestone, one of the hardest substances on earth under the DMZ and had made it 400 meters into South Korea. In the capitalist spirit, the South Koreans stopped the tunnel construction, kicked out the North Koreans, blocked the tunnel and turned it into a tourist attraction.

 

Weapons of the Korean War and of the DMZ