DMZ is more tourist mecca than war zone

581 views · Published 29 September 2017 · 0:43 · Indexed 27 October 2026

Channel: Stars and Stripes · 2017 · News & Politics

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The Korean Peninsula is bisected by the Demilitarized Zone, a misnomer because the 2.5-mile-wide, 150-mile-long no man's land is lined with barbed wire and is dotted with land mines.

That doesn't stop hordes of South Koreans, Americans and other sightseers from getting as close as they can, making the area near the world's most heavily fortified border an unlikely tourist mecca.

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