Tank traps meet tourist traps at Korea's Demilitarised Zone


  • World
  • Thursday, 24 Oct 2013

North Korean soldiers stand on the North Korean side, with one using a camera, as South Korean soldiers face them at the U.N. truce village building that sits on the border of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the military border separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea September 30, 2013. REUTERS/Jacquelyn Martin/Pool

DEMILITARISED ZONE, South Korea (Reuters) - South Korean soldiers are everywhere on the south side of the misleadingly named Demilitarised Zone. They guard buildings and man roadblocks to keep the invading hordes at bay.

Today the hordes aren't North Korean soldiers. They're tourists.

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