For South Korean schoolgirl Lee Su-jin, the daily commute into one of the world's most heavily armed zones, trundling past barbed-wire fences, military checkpoints and anti-tank barricades, has become routine.
The 11-year-old's school sits in the Korean peninsula’s Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a 4km wide buffer between North and South Korea that former US President Bill Clinton once called "the scariest place on Earth".
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