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Article: Korea's bizarre cold-war border.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 10, 2003
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Byline: Robert Marquand Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
PANMUNJOM, DEMILITARIZED ZONE, KOREA -- The good, the bad, and the ugly in Korea come together at a small series of sheds built here in the 1950s. Known as the "joint security area," and located in a mine-laden rural landscape, it is where North and South Korean forces stand virtually eyeball to eyeball.
The drab sheds, known as T-1, T-2, and T-3, are the heart of Panmunjom - a tiny patch of heavily fortified neutrality on a 155-mile armistice line that separates the Koreas. As the only place where the two sides have day-to-day contact, the area is a bellwether for 50-year-old ...