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The DMZ |
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DMZ sight-seeing: Eric was very determined to see the DMZ on this trip, so we tried to schedule a tour. You can pick up brochures (and tour busses) almost anywhere in Seoul to go see Panmunjun (the bunker that sits on the North/South Korean border, where you can actually "walk" into North Korea by a few feet, and see where all the high level meetings take place). If you can do it, and have an extra 3/4 day, it's probably worth it. NOTE: Children under 10 cannot go on the tour, and you cannot wear jeans or flip-flops. |
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For several reasons, we missed our scheduled tour of Panmunjun but we did drive to the edge of the DMZ and look around. The picture below, left, is a bank of lights that South Korea shines toward North Korea at night, to keep the North from doing effective nightime surveillance. |
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The "guard shack" above, was pretty typical of the types of stations we saw being manned by South Korean soldiers along the border. |
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After the most recent James Bond movie, I was expecting something different than the bridge, below, as "freedom bridge," where prisoner exchanges allegedly took/take place, but apparently, this is the real Freedom Bridge (below)
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Above right, and left, we took a walk through a monument park, mostly devoted to the American troops who fought in the Korean war. It was actually very poorly kept-up, and there was no one there besides us. |
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