View Full Version : Demilitarized Zone & North Korea Border


hkskyline
July 23rd, 2004, 01:06 AM
More photos at :
http://www.geocities.com/asiaglobe/gallery/sk-dmz.htm

1. Cheorwon is near the DMZ
http://img43.exs.cx/img43/288/RIMG0024.jpg

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http://img43.exs.cx/img43/8497/RIMG0026.jpg

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http://img43.exs.cx/img43/2323/RIMG0028.jpg

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http://img43.exs.cx/img43/4786/RIMG0035.jpg

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http://img43.exs.cx/img43/4324/RIMG0040.jpg

9. Fresh snow from the night before cover the landscape as the bus heads towards the DMZ :
http://img43.exs.cx/img43/8704/RIMG0052.jpg

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http://img43.exs.cx/img43/4327/RIMG0053.jpg

11. The Iron Triangle Observation Platform is a four-storey building built in the other side of Woljung station in 1988. This 300 capacity building has 8 hightly efficient telescopes and gives a view of the Pyunggang plateau, a propaganda village, the Kim, il-sung Hill, and the Blood Ridge, including the DMZ. The building also offers a miniature of which allows you to experience the partition of the Korean peninsula on a different level.

http://img43.exs.cx/img43/8789/RIMG0063.jpg

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http://img43.exs.cx/img43/1931/RIMG0065.jpg

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http://img43.exs.cx/img43/4055/RIMG0069.jpg

14. Adjacent to The Iron Triangle Observation Platform, this is the closest railway station to the Demilitarized Zone on the South Korean side. Behind the station in these photos lie the remains of a train which was destroyed during the Korean War and has since sat there for over 40 years.

http://img43.exs.cx/img43/2451/RIMG75.jpg

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http://img43.exs.cx/img43/3192/RIMG0076.jpg

waterloo
July 23rd, 2004, 04:35 AM
Cool i just watched documentry covering about DMZ and the wildlife...what a coicidence!!! By the way hkskyline thanks for posting about Korea everytime :)

Emile
July 23rd, 2004, 02:27 PM
why the DMZ?
iam wondering...

London™
July 23rd, 2004, 06:42 PM
why the DMZ?
iam wondering...

It's the short form of the Demilitarized Zone, which is a four-kilometre-wide strip of uninhabitated border between the North and the South. It runs from the mouth of Imjin River (50km northwest of Seoul) to the East Coast, stretching 250km.

Emile
July 24th, 2004, 12:55 AM
aha ;)

Ellatur
February 9th, 2005, 04:58 AM
are there a lot of tourists (both foreigners and koreans) coming to see this area?

SkylineTurbo
February 9th, 2005, 12:04 PM
Plenty of Americans go there to the DMZ.

mumbojumbo
February 9th, 2005, 11:37 PM
Wow awesome pictures hkskyline!! My mom won't let me go there though :(