The signal of armistice
After being the site for armistice talks, Panmunjeom became modernized being the only contacting zone of the South and North Korea. However, as the appearance of the building has become solid, the wall of ideology that blocks the South and North has become higher
The sign of military demarcation line of the truce line. Holding the pain of partition and the desire for unification, at both sides of this line, 1million 5 hundred thousand regular army of each party confronts each other. This is the place where the possibility that the war breaks out still exists. The war isn’t over yet.
Panmunjeom today
‘The bridge of no return’. It was named so because the prisoners could never return to the South as they crossed this bridge and headed North, after the armistice in 1953
The “Odusan Unification observation platform” at Tanheonmyeon Pajusi Geonggido (built in 1992). You can see the North Korean field and mountains and the activities of the North Korean people over the Imjin river iron fence.
