Google offers world a peek into off-limits area near Korean Demilitarised Zone


Viewers can embark on a virtual tour and explore the area, now a thriving wildlife sanctuary. - ARTSANDCULTURE.GOOGLE.COM

SEOUL (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Once a site of deadly armed conflict between the two Koreas and off limits to many civilians, anyone in the world can now take a peek into the area near the Korean Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), as 360-degree views have been released on Google.

The photos show the landscape in the civilian control line - the buffer outside the DMZ where civilian activities are restricted - and are part of a Google exhibit to mark 70 years of the 1953 armistice, which saw North and South Korea pull back from the DMZ.

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