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Article: Remaining Vigilant at Freedom's Frontier.
- Article from:
- Korea Times (Seoul, Korea)
- Article date:
- August 3, 2000
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Between the bands of concertina wire and minefields which stretch from coast to coast -- the world's most heavily fortified boundary -- lies the area known as the JSA (Joint Security Area) and home to the ``truce village'' of Panmunjom.
Forty-seven years ago, Panmunjom entered global and historical significance as the scene of the armistice signing which ended the Korean War.
It was here, on July 27, 1953 that a cease-fire agreement was finally reached putting an end to the hostilities that had erupted on the Korean peninsula in 1950. Today, Panmunjom remains not only symbolic of the armistice and the end of the Korean War, but also symbolic of a ...