North-South Korean border barrier
Korean Demilitarized Zone
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The Korean DMZ is denoted by the red highlighted area. The blue line indicates the international border. The four
incursion tunnels
are also shown.
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Type
| DMZ
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Length
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Open to
the public
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Condition
| Fully manned and operational
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Built by
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In use
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1953-07-27
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(70 years ago)
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Events
| Division of Korea
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Hangul
| 韓半島 非武裝 地帶
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Hanja
| 韓半島非武裝地帶
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Revised Romanization
| Hanbando Bimujang jidae
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McCune?Reischauer
| Hanbando Pimujang chidae
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The
Korean Demilitarized Zone
(
Korean
:
韓半島 非武裝 地帶
) is a heavily militarized strip of land running across the
Korean Peninsula
near the
38th parallel north
. The
demilitarized zone
(DMZ) is a
border barrier
that divides the peninsula roughly in half. It was established to serve as a
buffer zone
between the countries of
North Korea
and
South Korea
under the provisions of the
Korean Armistice Agreement
in 1953, an agreement between North Korea,
China
, and the
United Nations Command
.
The DMZ is 250 kilometers (160 mi) long and about 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) wide. There have been
various incidents in and around the DMZ
, with military and civilian casualties on both sides. Within the DMZ is a meeting point between the two nations, where negotiations take place: the small
Joint Security Area
(JSA) near the western end of the zone.
Location
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The Korean Demilitarized Zone intersects but does not follow the
38th parallel north
, which was the border before the
Korean War
. It crosses the parallel on an angle, with the west end of the DMZ lying south of the parallel and the east end lying north of it.
The DMZ is 250 km (160 mi) long,
[1]
approximately 4 km (2.5 mi) wide. Though the zone itself is demilitarized, the zone's borders on both sides are some of the most heavily militarized borders in the world.
[2]
The
Northern Limit Line
, or NLL, is the disputed maritime
demarcation line
between North and South Korea in the
Yellow Sea
, not agreed in the armistice. The coastline and islands on both sides of the NLL are also heavily militarized.
[3]
History
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The
38th parallel north
?which divides the Korean Peninsula roughly in half?was the original boundary between the United States and Soviet Union's brief administration areas of Korea at the end of
World War II
. Upon the creation of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
(DPRK, informally "North Korea") and the
Republic of Korea
(ROK, informally "South Korea") in 1948, it became a
de facto
international border and one of the most tense fronts in the
Cold War
.
Both the North and the South remained dependent on their sponsor states from 1948 to the outbreak of the
Korean War
. That conflict, which claimed over three million lives and divided the Korean Peninsula along ideological lines, commenced on 25 June 1950, with a full-front DPRK invasion across the 38th parallel, and ended in 1953 after international intervention pushed the front of the war back to near the 38th parallel.
In the
Armistice Agreement
of 27 July 1953, the DMZ was created as each side agreed to move their troops back 2,000 m (1.2 miles) from the front line, creating a buffer zone 4 km (2.5 mi) wide. The
Military Demarcation Line
(MDL) goes through the center of the DMZ and indicates where the front was when the agreement was signed.
Owing to this theoretical stalemate, and genuine hostility between the North and the South, large numbers of troops are stationed along both sides of the line, each side guarding against potential aggression from the other side, even
70 years after its establishment. The armistice agreement explains exactly how many military personnel and what kind of weapons are allowed in the DMZ. Soldiers from both sides may patrol inside the DMZ, but they may not cross the MDL.
Sporadic outbreaks of violence
in and around the border have killed over 500 South Korean soldiers, 50 American soldiers and 250 North Korean soldiers along the DMZ between 1953 and 1999.
[4]
Daeseong-dong
(also written
Tae Sung Dong
and known as “Freedom Village”), in South Korea, and
Kij?ng-dong
(also known as the "Peace Village"), in North Korea, are the only settlements allowed by the armistice committee to remain within the boundaries of the DMZ.
[5]
Residents of Tae Sung Dong are governed and protected by the
United Nations Command
and are generally required to spend at least 240 nights per year in the village to maintain their residency.
[5]
In 2008, the village had a population of 218 people.
[5]
The villagers of Tae Sung Dong are direct descendants of people who owned the land before the 1950?53 Korean War.
[6]
To continue to deter North Korean incursion, in 2014 the United States government exempted the Korean DMZ from its pledge to eliminate
anti-personnel landmines
.
[7]
On 1 October 2018, however, a 20-day process began to remove landmines from both sides of the DMZ.
[8]
Joint Security Area
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Inside the DMZ, near the western coast of the peninsula,
Panmunjeom
is the home of the Joint Security Area (JSA). Originally, it was the only connection between North and South Korea
[9]
but that changed on 17 May 2007, when a
Korail
train went through the DMZ to the North on the new
Donghae Bukbu Line
built on the east coast of Korea. However, the resurrection of this line was short-lived, as it closed again in July 2008 following an incident in which a South Korean tourist was shot and killed.
The JSA is the location of the famous
Bridge of No Return
, over which prisoner exchanges have taken place. There are several buildings on both the north and the south side of the
Military Demarcation Line
(MDL), and there have been some built on top of it. All
negotiations
since 1953 have been held in the JSA, including statements of Korean solidarity, which have generally amounted to little except a slight decline of
tensions
.
Within the JSA are a number of buildings for joint meetings called Conference Rooms. The MDL goes through the conference rooms and down the middle of the conference tables where the North Koreans and the United Nations Command (primarily South Koreans and Americans) meet face to face.
Facing the Conference Row buildings are the North Korean
Panmungak
(English:
Panmun Hall
) and the South Korean
Freedom House
. In 1994, North Korea enlarged Panmungak by adding a third floor. In 1998, South Korea built a new Freedom House for its
Red Cross
staff and to possibly host reunions of families separated by the
Korean War
. The new building incorporated the old Freedom House Pagoda within its design.
Since 1953 there have been occasional confrontations and skirmishes within the JSA. The
axe murder incident
in August 1976 involved the attempted trimming of a tree which resulted in two deaths (
Captain
Arthur Bonifas and
First Lieutenant
Mark Barrett). Another incident occurred on 23 November 1984, when a Soviet tourist named
Vasily Matuzok
(sometimes spelled Matusak), who was part of an official trip to the JSA (hosted by the North), ran across the MDL shouting that he wanted to defect to the South. As many as 30 North Korean soldiers pursued him across the border, opening fire.
[10]
Border guards on the South Korean side returned fire, eventually surrounding the North Koreans. One South Korean and three North Korean soldiers were killed in the action. Matuzok survived and was eventually resettled in the U.S.
[11]
In late 2009, South Korean forces in conjunction with the
United Nations Command
began renovation of its three
guard posts
and two checkpoint buildings within the JSA compound. Construction was designed to enlarge and modernize the structures. Work was undertaken a year after North Korea finished replacing four JSA guard posts on its side of the MDL.
[12]
On 15 October, 2018, during the high-level talks in Panmunjeom, military officials of the rank of colonel from the two Koreas and Burke Hamilton, Secretary of the
UNC Military Armistice Commission
, announced measures to reduce conventional military threats, such as creating buffer zones along their land and sea boundaries and a no-fly zone above the border, removing 11 front-line guard posts by December, and
demining
sections of the Demilitarized Zone.
[13]
Villages
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Both North and South Korea maintain
peace villages
in sight of each other's side of the DMZ. In the South,
Daeseong-dong
is administered under the terms of the DMZ. Villagers are classed as
Republic of Korea
citizens, but are
exempt
from paying tax and other civic requirements such as
military service
. In the North,
Kij?ng-dong
features a number of brightly painted, poured-concrete multi-story buildings and apartments with electric lighting. These features represented an unheard-of level of luxury for rural Koreans, North or South, in the 1950s. The town was oriented so that the bright blue roofs and white sides of the buildings would be the most distinguishing features when viewed from the border. However, based on scrutiny with modern telescopic lenses, it has been confirmed that the buildings are mere concrete shells lacking window glass or even interior rooms,
[14]
[15]
with the building lights turned on and off at set times and the empty sidewalks swept by a skeleton crew of caretakers in an effort to preserve the illusion of activity.
[16]
Flagpoles
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In the 1980s, the South Korean government built a 99.8 m (327 ft) flag pole in Daeseong-dong, which flies a
South Korean flag
weighing 130 kg (287 lb). In what some have called the "flagpole war," the North Korean government responded by building the 160 m (525 ft)
Panmunjeom flagpole
in Kij?ng-dong, only 1.2 km (0.7 mi) west of the border with South Korea. It flies a 270 kg (595 lb)
flag of North Korea
. In 2014, the Panmunjeom flagpole was the fourth tallest in the world, after the
Jeddah Flagpole
in
Jeddah
,
Saudi Arabia
, at 170 m (558 ft), the
Dushanbe Flagpole
in
Dushanbe
,
Tajikistan
, at 165 m (541 ft) and the pole at the
National Flag Square
in
Baku
,
Azerbaijan
, which is 162 m (531 ft).
[17]
[18]
It is currently the world's sixth largest flagpole.
DMZ-related incidents and incursions
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Since demarcation, the DMZ has had numerous cases of incidents and incursions by both sides, although the North Korean government typically never acknowledges direct responsibility for any of these incidents (there are exceptions, such as the axe incident).
[19]
This was particularly intense during the
Korean DMZ Conflict (1966?1969)
when a series of skirmishes along the DMZ resulted in the deaths of 43
American
, 299
South Korean
and 397
North Korean soldiers
.
[20]
This included the
Blue House Raid
in 1968, an attempt to
assassinate
South Korea President
Park Chung Hee
at the
Blue House
.
[21]
In 1976, in now-declassified meeting minutes, U.S. deputy secretary of defense
William Clements
told U.S. secretary of state
Henry Kissinger
that there had been 200 raids or incursions into North Korea from the south, though not by the U.S. military.
[22]
Details of only a few of these incursions have become public, including raids by South Korean forces in 1967 that had sabotaged about 50 North Korean facilities.
[23]
Incursion tunnels
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Since 15 November 1974, South Korea has discovered four tunnels crossing the DMZ that had been dug by North Korea. The orientation of the blasting lines within each tunnel indicated they were dug by North Korea. North Korea claimed that the tunnels were for coal mining; no coal was found in the tunnels, which were dug through granite. Some of the tunnel walls were painted black to give the appearance of
anthracite
.
[24]
The tunnels are believed to have been planned as a military invasion route by North Korea. They run in a north?south direction and do not have branches. Following each discovery, engineering within the tunnels has become progressively more advanced. For example, the third tunnel sloped slightly upwards as it progressed southward, to prevent water stagnation. Today, visitors from the south may visit the second, third and fourth tunnels through guided tours.
[
citation needed
]
First tunnel
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The first of the tunnels was discovered on 15 November 1974, by a South Korean Army patrol, noticing steam rising from the ground. The initial discovery was met with
automatic fire
from North Korean soldiers. Five days later, during a subsequent exploration of this tunnel, US Navy Commander Robert M. Ballinger and
ROK Marine Corps
Major Kim Hah-chul were killed in the tunnel by a North Korean explosive device. The blast also wounded five Americans and one South Korean from the United Nations Command.
The tunnel, which was about 0.9 by 1.2 m (3 by 4 ft), extended more than 1 km (1,100 yd) beyond the MDL into South Korea. The tunnel was reinforced with concrete slabs and had electric power and lighting. There were weapon storage areas and sleeping areas. A
narrow-gauge railway
with carts had also been installed. Estimates based on the tunnel's size suggest it would have allowed considerable numbers of soldiers to pass through it.
[25]
Second tunnel
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The second tunnel was discovered on 19 March 1975. It is of similar length to the first tunnel. It is located between 50 and 160 m (160 and 520 ft) below ground, but is larger than the first, approximately 2 by 2 m (7 by 7 feet).
Third tunnel
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The third tunnel was discovered on 17 October 1978. Unlike the previous two, the third tunnel was discovered following a tip from a
North Korean defector
. This tunnel is about 1,600 m (5,200 ft) long and about 73 m (240 ft) below ground.
[26]
Foreign visitors touring the South Korean DMZ may view inside this tunnel using a sloped access shaft.
Fourth tunnel
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A fourth tunnel was discovered on 3 March 1990, north of
Haean
town in the former
Punchbowl
battlefield. The tunnel's dimensions are 2 by 2 m (7 by 7 feet), and it is 145 m (476 ft) deep. The method of construction is almost identical in structure to the second and the third tunnels.
[27]
Korean wall
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According to North Korea, between 1977 and 1979, the South Korean and United States authorities constructed a concrete wall along the DMZ.
[28]
North Korea, however, began to propagate information about the wall after the
fall of the Berlin Wall
in 1989, when the symbolism of a wall unjustly dividing a people became more apparent.
[29]
Various organizations, such as the North Korean tour guide company Korea Konsult, claimed a wall was dividing Korea, saying that:
In the area south of the Military Demarcation Line, which cuts across Korea at its waist, there is a concrete wall which ... stretches more than 240 km (149 mi) from east to west, is 5?8 m (16?26 ft) high, 10?19 m (33?62 ft) thick at the bottom, and 3?7 m (10?23 ft) wide in the upper part. It is set with wire entanglements and dotted with gun embrasures, look-outs and varieties of military establishments.
[30]
In December 1999, Chu Chang-jun,
North Korea's ambassador to China
, repeated claims that a "wall" divided Korea. He said the south side of the wall is packed with soil, which permits access to the top of the wall and makes it effectively invisible from the south side. He also claimed that it served as a
bridgehead
for any northward invasion.
[31]
[32]
The United States and South Korea deny the wall's existence, although they do claim there are
anti-tank barriers
along some sections of the DMZ.
[33]
Dutch journalist and filmmaker
Peter Tetteroo
also shot footage of a barrier in 2001 which his North Korean guides said was the Korean Wall.
[28]
A 2007
Reuters
report revealed that there is no coast to coast wall located across the DMZ and that the pictures of a "wall" which have been used in North Korean propaganda have merely been pictures of concrete anti-tank barriers.
[34]
While 800,000 landmines were being removed in 2018, it was shown that the
Joint Security Area
along the Korean border was guarded by standard barbed wire.
[35]
North Korean side of the DMZ
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The North Korean side of the DMZ primarily serves to stop an invasion of North Korea from the south. Its other purpose is to ensure that North Korean citizens face significant difficulty in any effort to defect to South Korea.
[36]
[37]
From the armistice until 1972, approximately 7,700 South Korean soldiers and agents infiltrated into North Korea in order to sabotage military bases and industrial areas. Around 5,300 of them never returned home.
[38]
North Korea has thousands of artillery pieces near the DMZ. According to a 2018 article in
The Economist
, North Korea could bombard Seoul with over 10,000 rounds every minute.
[39]
Experts believe that 60 percent of its total
artillery
is positioned within a few kilometers of the DMZ acting as a deterrent against any South Korean invasion.
Propaganda
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Loudspeaker installations
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From 1953 until 2004, both sides broadcast audio propaganda across the DMZ.
[40]
Massive loudspeakers mounted on several of the buildings delivered DPRK propaganda broadcasts directed towards the south as well as propaganda radio broadcasts across the border.
[14]
In 2004, the North and South agreed to end the broadcasts.
[40]
On 4 August 2015, a border incident occurred where two South Korean soldiers were wounded after stepping on landmines that had allegedly been laid on the southern side of the DMZ by North Korean forces near an ROK guard post.
[41]
[42]
Both North Korea and South Korea then resumed broadcasting propaganda by loudspeaker.
[43]
After four days of negotiations, on 25 August 2015 South Korea agreed to discontinue the broadcasts following a statement from North Korea's government expressing regret for the landmine incident.
[44]
On 8 January 2016, in response to North Korea's supposed successful testing of a
hydrogen bomb
, South Korea resumed broadcasts directed at the North.
[45]
On 15 April 2016, it was reported that the South Koreans purchased a new audio system to combat the North's broadcasts.
[46]
Balloons
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Both North and South Korea have held
balloon propaganda leaflet
campaigns since the Korean War.
In recent years, mainly South Korean
non-governmental organizations
have been involved in launching balloons targeted at the DMZ and beyond.
Due to the winds, the balloons tend to fall near the DMZ where there are mostly North Korean soldiers to see the leaflets.
[49]
As with the loudspeakers, balloon operations were mutually agreed to be halted between 2004 and 2010.
It has been assessed that the activists' balloons may contribute to the decay of remaining cooperation between the Korean governments,
[51]
and the DMZ has become more militarized in recent years.
Many North Korean leaflets during the Cold War gave instructions and maps to help targeted South Korean soldiers in defecting. One of the leaflets found on the DMZ included a map of
Cho Dae-hum
's route of
defection to North Korea
across the DMZ. In addition to using balloons as a means of delivery, North Koreans have also used
rockets
to send leaflets to the DMZ.
[53]
Dismantling
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On 23 April 2018, both North and South Korea officially cancelled their border propaganda broadcasts.
[54]
On 1 May 2018, the loudspeaker systems across the Korean border were dismantled.
[55]
Both sides also committed to ending the balloon campaigns.
[56]
On 5 May 2018, an attempt by North Korean defectors to disperse more balloon propaganda across the border from South Korea was halted by the South Korean government.
[57]
The no-fly zone which was established on 1 November 2018 also designates a no-fly zone for all aircraft types above the MDL, and prohibits hot-air balloons from traveling within 25 km of the Korean border's
Military Demarcation Line
(MDL).
[58]
Civilian Control Line
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Civilian Control Line, Imjingak, Paju, South Korea
Civilian Control Line, South Korea
A South Korean checkpoint at the Civilian Control Line, located outside of the DMZ
The Civilian Control Line (CCL), or the Civilian Control Zone (CCZ,
民間人出入統制區域
[
ko
]
), is a line that designates an additional buffer zone to the DMZ within a distance of 5 to 20 km (3.1 to 12.4 mi) from the Southern Limit Line of the DMZ. Its purpose is to limit and control the entrance of civilians into the area in order to protect and maintain the security of military facilities and operations near the DMZ. The commander of the
8th US Army
ordered the creation of the CCL and it was activated and first became effective in February 1954.
[59]
The buffer zone that falls south of the Southern Limit Line is called the Civilian Control Zone. Barbed wire fences and manned military guard posts mark the Civilian Control Line. The Civilian Control Zone is necessary for the military to monitor civilian travel to tourist destinations close to the Southern Limit Line of the DMZ like the discovered infiltration tunnels and tourist observatories. Usually when traveling within the Civilian Control Zone, South Korean soldiers accompany tourist buses and cars as armed guards to monitor the civilians as well as to protect them from North Korean intruders.
Right after the
ceasefire
, the Civilian Control Zone outside the DMZ encompassed 100 or so empty villages. The government implemented migration measures to attract settlers into the area. As a result, in 1983, when the area delineated by the Civilian Control Line was at its largest, a total of 39,725 residents in 8,799 households were living in the 81 villages located within the Civilian Control Zone.
[60]
Most of the tourist and media photos of the "DMZ fence" are actually photos of the CCL fence. The actual DMZ fence on the Southern Limit Line is completely off-limits to everybody except soldiers, and it is illegal to take pictures of the DMZ fence. The CCL fence acts more as a deterrent for South Korean civilians from getting too close to the dangerous DMZ and is also the final barrier for North Korean infiltrators if they get past the Southern Limit Line DMZ fence.
[61]
Neutral Zone of the Han River Estuary
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The whole estuary of the
Han River
is deemed a "Neutral Zone" and is off-limits to all civilian vessels and is treated like the rest of the DMZ. Only military vessels are allowed within this neutral zone.
According to the July 1953
Korean Armistice Agreement
civil
shipping
was supposed to be permissible in the Han River estuary and allow Seoul to be connected to the
Yellow Sea
(West Sea) via the Han River.
[62]
However, both Koreas and the UNC failed to make this happen. The South Korean government ordered the construction of the
Ara Canal
to finally connect
Seoul
to the Yellow Sea, which was completed in 2012. Seoul was effectively landlocked from the ocean until 2012. The biggest limitation of the Ara Canal is it is too narrow to handle any vessels except small tourist boats and recreational boats, so Seoul still cannot receive large commercial ships or passenger ships in its port.
In recent years Chinese fishing vessels have taken advantage of the tense situation in the
Han River
Estuary Neutral Zone and illegally fished in this area due to both
North Korean
and
South Korean
navies never patrolling this area due to the fear of naval battles breaking out. This has led to
firefights
and sinkings of boats between Chinese fishermen and
South Korean Coast Guard
.
[63]
[64]
On January 30, 2019, North Korean and South Korean military officials signed a landmark agreement that would open the Han River Estuary to civilian vessels for the first time since the Armistice Agreement in 1953. The agreement was scheduled to take place in April 2019 but the failure of the
2019 Hanoi Summit
indefinitely postponed these plans.
[65]
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Castle of Gung Ye
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Within the DMZ itself, in the town of
Cheorwon
, is the old capital of the kingdom of
Taebong
(901?918), a regional upstart that became
Goryeo
, the dynasty that ruled a
united Korea
from 918 to 1392.
Taebong
was founded by the charismatic leader
Gung Ye
, a brilliant if tyrannical one-eyed ex-
Buddhist monk
. Rebelling against the kingdom of
Silla
, Korea's then ruling dynasty, he proclaimed the kingdom of
Taebong
?also called Later Goguryeo, in reference to the ancient kingdom of
Goguryeo
(37 BCE ? 668 CE)?in 901, with himself as king. The kingdom consisted of much of central Korea, including areas around the DMZ. He placed his capital in
Cheorwon
, a mountainous region that was easily defensible (in the Korean War, this same region would earn the name "the
Iron Triangle
").
As a former Buddhist monk,
Gung Ye
actively promoted the religion of
Buddhism
and incorporated Buddhist ceremonies into the new kingdom. Even after Gung Ye was
dethroned
by his own generals and replaced by
Wang Geon
, the man who would rule over a united Korea as the first king of
Goryeo
, this Buddhist influence would continue, playing a major role in shaping the culture of medieval Korea.
As the ruins of Gung Ye's capital lie in the DMZ itself, visitors cannot see them. Moreover, excavation work and research have been hampered by political realities. In the future, inter-Korean peace may allow for proper archaeological studies to be conducted on the castle site and other historical sites within and underneath the DMZ.
[68]
The ruins of the capital city of Taebong, the ruins of the castle of Gung Ye, and King Gung Ye's
tomb
all lie within the DMZ and are off-limits to everybody except soldiers who patrol the DMZ.
[69]
Transportation
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Panmunjeom
is the site of the negotiations that ended the Korean War and is the main center of human activity in the DMZ. The village is located on the main highway and near a railroad connecting the two Koreas.
The railway, which connects Seoul and
Pyongyang
, was called the
Gyeongui Line
before division in the 1940s. Currently the South uses the original name, but the North refers to the route as the P'y?ngbu Line. The railway line has been mainly used to carry materials and South Korean workers to the
Kaesong Industrial Region
. Its reconnection has been seen as part of the general improvement in the relations between North and South in the early part of this century. However, in November 2008 North Korean authorities closed the railway amid growing tensions with the South.
[70]
Following the death of former
South Korean President
Kim Dae-jung
, conciliatory talks were held between South Korean officials and a North Korean delegation who attended Kim's funeral. In September 2009, the Kaesong rail and road crossing was reopened.
[71]
The road at Panmunjeom, which was known historically as
Highway One
in the South, was originally the only access point between the two countries on the Korean Peninsula. Passage is comparable to the strict movements that occurred at
Checkpoint Charlie
in Berlin at the height of the Cold War. Both North and South Korea's roads end in the JSA; the highways do not quite join as there is a 20 cm (8 in) concrete line that divides the entire site. People given the rare permission to cross this border must do so on foot before continuing their journey by road.
In 2007, on the east coast of Korea, the first train crossed the DMZ on the new
Donghae Bukbu (Tonghae Pukpu) Line
. The new rail crossing was built adjacent to the road which took South Koreans to
Mount Kumgang Tourist Region
, a region of significant cultural importance for all Koreans. More than one million civilian visitors crossed the DMZ until the route was closed following the shooting of a 53-year-old South Korean tourist in July 2008.
[72]
After a joint investigation was rebuffed by North Korea, the South Korean government suspended tours to the resort. Since then, the resort and the Donghae Bukbu Line have effectively been closed by North Korea.
[73]
[74]
Currently, the South Korean
Korea Railroad Corporation
(Korail) organizes tours to DMZ with special DMZ themed trains.
[75]
On 14 October 2018, North and South Korea, agreed to meet the summit's goal of restoring railway and road transportation, which had been cut since the Korean War, by either late November or early December 2018.
[76]
Road and railway transportation along the DMZ were reconnected in November 2018,
[77]
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following the removal of the "frontline" guard posts and Arrowhead Hill landmines, railroad transportation between North and South Korea resumed.
[79]
The same day, 30 officials from both North and South Korea started an 18-day survey of a 400-kilometer (248-mile) railroad section in North Korea alongside the DMZ between Kaesong and Sinuiju.
[80]
[81]
Efforts to conduct the survey had previously been obstructed due to the presence of the guard posts and the Arrowhead Hill landmines.
[79]
The survey will then follow the groundbreaking of a new railroad along the DMZ.
[81]
The railway survey which involved the
Gyeongui Line
concluded on 5 December 2018.
[82]
On 8 December 2018, a South Korean bus crossed the DMZ into North Korea.
[83]
The same day, the officials who conducted the inter-Korean survey for the Gyeongui Line began surveying the
Donghae Line
.
[83]
Nature reserve
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In the past half century, the Korean DMZ has been a deadly place for humans, making habitation impossible. Only around the village of
Panmunjom
and more recently the Donghae Bukbu Line on Korea's east coast have there been regular incursions by people.
[84]
[85]
This natural isolation along the 250 km (160 mi) length of the DMZ has created an
involuntary park
which is now recognized as one of the most well-preserved areas of temperate habitat in the world.
[86]
In 1966 it was first proposed that the DMZ be turned into a
national park
.
[87]
There are over 6,000 species of animals and plants in the DMZ. The DMZ has over 100
endangered animal species
of the 267 in Korea, as well as many endangered plant species, among the heavily fortified fences,
landmines
and listening posts.
[88]
These animals include the endangered
red-crowned crane
(a staple of Asian art), the
white-naped crane
, critically endangered
Korean fox
[89]
and
Asiatic black bear
,
[90]
and, potentially, the extremely rare
Siberian tiger
,
[86]
Amur leopard
, and endangered marine species such as western
gray whale
.
[91]
[92]
Ecologists have identified some 2,900 plant species, 70 types of mammals and 320 kinds of birds within the narrow buffer zone.
[86]
Additional surveys are now being conducted throughout the region.
[93]
The DMZ owes its varied
biodiversity
to its geography, which crosses mountains, prairies, swamps, lakes, and tidal marshes.
Environmentalists
hope that the DMZ will be conserved as a wildlife refuge, with a well-developed set of objective and management plans vetted and in place. In 2005,
CNN
founder and media mogul
Ted Turner
, on a visit to North Korea, said that he would financially support any plans to turn the DMZ into a peace park and a UN-protected
World Heritage Site
.
[94]
In September 2011, South Korea submitted a nomination form to
Man and the Biosphere Programme
(MAB) in
UNESCO
for designation of 435 km
2
(168 sq mi) in the southern part of the DMZ below the Military Demarcation Line, as well as 2,979 km
2
(1,150 sq mi) in privately controlled areas, as a Biosphere Reserve according to the Statutory Framework of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
[95]
The MAB National Committee of the Republic of Korea mentioned only the southern part of DMZ to be nominated since there was no response from
Pyongyang
when it requested Pyongyang to push jointly. North Korea is a member nation of the international coordinating council of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme, which designates Biosphere Reserves.
[96]
North Korea opposed the application as a violation of the armistice agreement during the council's meeting in Paris on 9 to 13 July 2011. The South Korean government's attempt to designate the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve was turned down at UNESCO's MAB council meeting in Paris in July 2012. Pyongyang expressed its opposition by sending letters to 32 council member countries, except for South Korea, and the UNESCO headquarters a month prior to the meeting. At the council meeting, Pyongyang said the designation violated the Armistice Agreement.
[97]
Destruction of guard posts
[
edit
]
On 26 October 2018, South Korean major general Kim Do-gyun and North Korean lieutenant general An Ik-san met in
Tongilgak
(the "Unification Pavilion"), a North Korean building located within the DMZ's Joint Security Area (JSA). There, they began implementing new protocols which aim to reduce tension by requiring both North and South Korea to destroy 22 guard posts across the DMZ,
[98]
among other steps. Both generals approved requirements for the guard posts to be destroyed by the end of November 2018.
[99]
The JSA's guard posts were destroyed on 25 October 2018.
[98]
[100]
[101]
North and South Korea agreed to dismantle 11 guard posts located within their individual country and deemed as "front-line".
[102]
[103]
It was also agreed that after the posts are dismantled, both Koreas would also withdraw equipment and personnel stationed at each post as well.
[103]
In tandem with the
September 2018 Pyongyang and Military Domain Agreements
,
[102]
[103]
[104]
both sides also agreed to gradually remove all guard posts near the DMZ following verification in December 2018.
[102]
[103]
However, all remaining troops and equipment, including weapons, were withdrawn from all of the 22 "frontline" guard posts before destruction began and both Koreas later agreed to individually destroy 10 of these guard posts instead of 11.
[105]
[106]
[107]
[108]
On 4 November 2018, the North and South Korean governments hoisted a yellow flag above each of their 11 DMZ guard posts to publicly indicate that they all will be dismantled.
[109]
On 10 November 2018, the withdrawal of military personnel and weapons from all of the DMZ's 22 "front-line" guard posts was completed.
[107]
[108]
The destruction of 20 guard posts officially began on 11 November 2018.
[110]
However, both Koreas amended the original agreement and decided to preserve 2 of the 22 now demilitarized frontline guard posts.
[110]
Both of the posts which were planned to be preserved are located on the opposite sides of the Korean border.
[106]
On 15 November 2018, destruction of two DMZ guard posts, one being located in South Korea and the other located in North Korea, was completed.
[111]
[112]
Work was still ongoing to complete the destruction of other guard posts as well.
[111]
[112]
On 23 November 2018, it was revealed that South Korea was slowly destroying their guard posts with
excavators
.
[113]
On 20 November 2018, North Korea, hoping to further ease tensions with South Korea, destroyed all of their 10 remaining "frontline" guard posts.
[114]
The South Korean Defense Ministry released photos confirming this and also released a statement stating that North Korea had informed them about the plans to demolish them before it took place. This came in accordance with the earlier agreements.
[114]
South Korea also released videos of the guard posts being destroyed as well.
[115]
On 30 November 2018, both Koreas completed work to dismantle 10 of their "frontline" guard posts.
[79]
[116]
However, the later agreement for each Korea to preserve one "frontline" post was upheld as well.
[79]
The "frontline" guard post which was preserved on the North Korean side of the DMZ was visited by Kim Jong-un in 2013 when tensions were rising between both Koreas.
[113]
Establishment of buffer zones, no-fly zones and Yellow Sea peace zones
[
edit
]
On 1 November 2018, buffer zones were established across the DMZ by the North and South Korean militaries.
[117]
In compliance with the Comprehensive Military Agreement which was signed at the
September 2018 inter-Korean summit
,
[118]
the buffer zone helps ensure that both North and South Korea will effectively ban hostility on land, air, and sea.
[117]
Both Koreas are prohibited from conducting
live-fire artillery drills
and regiment-level field maneuvering exercises or those by bigger units within 5 kilometers of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL).
[117]
The buffer zones stretch from the north of Deokjeok Island to the south of Cho Island in the West Sea and the north of
Sokcho
city and south of Tongchon County in the East (Yellow) Sea.
[118]
No-fly zones have also been established along the DMZ to ban the operation of drones, helicopters and other aircraft over an area up to 40 km (25 mi) away from the MDL.
[117]
For
UAVs
, within 15 km (9.3 mi) from the MDL in the East and 10 km (6.2 mi) from the MDL in the West.
[58]
Hot-air balloons cannot travel within 25 km (16 mi) of the DMZ as well.
[58]
For fixed-wing aircraft, no fly zones are designated within 40 km (25 mi) from the MDL in the East (between MDL Markers No. 0646 and 1292) and within 20 km (12 mi) of the MDL in the West (between MDL Markers No. 0001 and 0646).
[118]
For
rotary-wing aircraft
, the no fly zones are designated within 10 km (6.2 mi) of the MDL.
[118]
Both Koreas also created "peace zones" near their
disputed
Yellow Sea border.
[117]
Reconnecting of MDL-crossing road
[
edit
]
On 22 November 2018, North and South Korea completed construction to connect a three-kilometer (1.9 mi) road along the DMZ, 90 km (56 mi) northeast of Seoul.
[77]
[78]
This road, which crosses the Korean MDL land border, consists of 1.7 km (1.1 mi) in South Korea and 1.3 km (0.81 mi) in North Korea.
[78]
The road was reconnected for the first time in 14 years in an effort to assist with a process at the DMZ's Arrowhead Hill involving the removal of landmines and exhumation of Korean War remains.
[119]
[120]
[121]
Presence of landmines and Korean War remains
[
edit
]
On 1 October 2018, North and South Korean military engineers began a scheduled 20 day removal process of landmines and other explosives planted across the DMZ's
Joint Security Area
of the (DMZ).
[35]
[122]
[123]
Work to remove landmines from the Joint Security Area was completed on 25 October 2018.
[35]
[124]
[125]
[126]
Demining had begun at the DMZ's Arrowhead Hill and resulted in the discovery of Korean War remains.
[127]
[128]
Work between both Koreas to remove landmines from Arrowhead Hill was completed on 30 November 2018.
[116]
[129]
Military Border Crossing
[
edit
]
On 12 December 2018, militaries from both Koreas crossed the DMZ's MDL into the opposition countries for the first time in history to inspect and verify the removal of "frontline" guard posts.
[130]
[131]
Meeting of Trump, Kim, and Moon at the DMZ
[
edit
]
On 30 June 2019, U.S. president
Donald Trump
became the first sitting U.S. president to enter North Korea, doing so at the DMZ line.
[132]
After crossing into North Korea, Trump and North Korean chairman
Kim Jong Un
met and shook hands.
[133]
Kim stated, in Korean, "It's good to see you again", "I never expected to meet you at this place" and "you are the first U.S. president to cross the border."
[133]
Both men then briefly crossed the border line before crossing back into South Korea.
[133]
On the South Korean side of the DMZ, Kim, South Korean president
Moon Jae-in
, and Trump held a brief chat before holding an hour-long
meeting
at the DMZ's
Inter-Korean House of Freedom
.
[134]
[135]
Pilgrimages
[
edit
]
An annual youth
pilgrimage
including a 6-day peace walk to the DMZ is organised by the Catholic Church. The first pilgrimage took place in 2012. Young people from 15 countries attended the 2019 pilgrimage.
[136]
The 2022 pilgrimage included visits to the
Ulleungdo
and
Dokdo
islands.
[137]
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