Not just any ordinary hideout


So close, yet so far: View from inside a bunker in the grounds of Daonsoop cafe, built less than 2km from the North Korean border (beyond road) in Paju, north of Seoul. — AFP

Reclining on sofas at a South Korean cafe, customers sip iced americanos as they gaze past barbed wire fences and watchtowers at the mountains of North Korea.

Daonsoop cafe is so close to the North Korean border that to obtain the building permit, its owners had to construct the property with a bunker and fortified positions for tanks.

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