Listen to Jean read this articleThe border between North and South Korea is swamped with layers of dense barbed-wire fencing and hundreds of guard posts. But dotted among them is something even more ...

Their village is just a stone's throw from North Korea. So whatever their political leanings, Tongilchon residents all want ...

The building, previously known as the Unification Pavilion, was renamed Panmun Hall sometime in 2024, ministry spokesman Koo ...

The DMZ is also guarded by barbed wire fences, tank traps and combat-ready troops on both sides of the border. It has stood since the end of the Korean War, which concluded with not a peace treaty ...

The array of forces on both sides of the DMZ illustrates these points. The war can only end when there is a major withdrawal of North Korean forces a significant distance away from the DMZ.

The 160-mile-long DMZ was created at the end of the Korean War in 1953, cutting the Korean Peninsula roughly in two under a deal between North Korea and China on one side and the collection of ...

The DMZ is 2.5-mile wide buffer zone either side of the Military Demarcation Line, the de facto border since the Korean War armistice of 1953. Apart from being one of the most militarized borders ...

As dividing lines go, the demilitarised zone (DMZ) between South and North Korea is not an unattractive one. It is a lush strip 4km (2.5 miles) wide, teeming with wildlife, that extends 250km from ...

Shortly after the Korean War, Koreans favored reunification. Many had family members on either side of the DMZ and wanted to reunite as time went on. Though generations passed the gap between ...

but not the Korean War itself. The DMZ was meant to be a temporary buffer zone, dividing a warring nation. Instead, it has hardened into the world’s most heavily armed frontier, embodying not ...

The DMZ separates totalitarian North Korea from ... In July 1953, the three-year Korean War came to an end. The war ended in an armistice, an agreement by both sides to suspend open hostilities.