Sipping coffee with a view of a North Korean mountain village


As close as it gets: A visitor photographing cups of coffee on a handrail with a view of North Korea’s Kaephung county, at an observation deck of a Starbucks outlet in Gimpo. — Bloomberg

Coffee drinkers can sip their beverages and view a quiet North Korean mountain village from a new Starbucks at a South Korean border observatory.

Customers have to pass a military checkpoint before entering the observatory at Aegibong Peace Ecopark, which is less than a mile from North Korean territory and overlooks North Korea’s Songaksan mountain and a nearby village in Kaephung county.

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