King made his unauthorised crossing on Tuesday while on a group tour of the "peace village" of Panmunjom inside the DMZ, U.S. officials said. "I was aware that it's a trip that has its own rules ..
. knowing that North Korea is just a visible distance away," Felicia, a 28-year-old Malaysian tourist who declined to give her full name, said on Wednesday after returning from a visit to the DMZ area. The DMZ was established after the 1950-1953 Korean War, which ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty, and despite its name, is highly fortified with razor wire and minefields on either side of a 4-kilometre (2.5 miles) wide buffer.
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| To brush up even closer to North Korea, tourists can visit Panmunjom, known formally as the Joint Security Area (JSA) - a cluster of buildings that has hosted inter-Korean talks and where troops from both sides stand almost face to face. |
| King made his unauthorised crossing on Tuesday while on a group tour of the "peace village" of Panmunjom inside the DMZ, U.S. officials said. "I was aware that it's a trip that has its own rules ... knowing that North Korea is just a visible distance away," Felicia, a 28-year-old Malaysian tourist who declined to give her full name, said on Wednesday after returning from a visit to the DMZ area. The DMZ was established after the 1950-1953 Korean War, which ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty, and despite its name, is highly fortified with razor wire and minefields on either side of a 4-kilometre (2.5 miles) wide buffer. |
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