![]() Then they lead your group on a long underground journey. ![]() Korean soldiers take away all cameras and umbrellas and pass out dark-brown military helmets. Off in a remote, barren corner of the zone, it is the South Koreans’job to dramatize the continuing threat from the North. It threatened to heat up again, in the aftermath of the October bomb blast in Rangoon, Burma, that killed seventeen South Korean high officials and which the South Koreans believe was perpetrated by North Korean agents.Ī visit to the DMZ has two stages, one Korean and one American. ![]() It is like a journey in a time machine, back to an era and a place where the Cold War was once hot. As the villages grow farther apart and the rice fields start to sprout concrete tank traps, you know you’re getting close to the DMZ when you cross Freedom Bridge and see Camp Liberty Bell, you know you’re there. WHAT WITH TRAFFIC jams and checkpoints, the twenty-five-mile bus ride north from Seoul to the demilitarized zone dividing the two Koreas takes almost two hours, and so the suspense builds along the way.
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