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Article: Korean tensions rise; DMZ stays calm.(Front)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- May 31, 2009
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By Eric Talmadge
The Associated Press
PANMUNJOM, Korea
The thin North Korean guard shuffles around in his dull green uniform, a pair of binoculars fixed to his eyes, while a squad of South Koreans in black helmets glare back silently from their positions across the border.
For more than a half-century, this divided hamlet has been the front line of a fragile truce that ended the three-year Korean War. Intimidation has been honed to a fine art here. But while tensions last week rose to their highest level in years, there was a sense of calm in the Demilitarized Zone.
Skirmishes have a tendency to escalate quickly in Panmunjom. ...