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'The scariest place on Earth': What it's like on the Korean DMZ, the world's most dangerous strip of landThomas Maresca, Special to USA TODAYPublished 3:51 p.m. ET Dec. 20, 2017 | Updated 10:13 a.m. ET Dec. 21, 2017PANMUNJOM, Demilitarized Zone – The border between North and South Korea is one of the most heavily guarded stretches of land in the world — a band 2½ miles wide and 150 miles long dividing the peninsula since the Korean War ended in 1953. The DMZ, littered with scores of mines and barbed-wire fences, is nightmarishly difficult to cross, except here in the Joint Security Area, a special buffer zone inside what is known as the “truce village†of Panmunjom, about 35 miles north of Seoul.Every year, hundreds of thousands of people visit the Joint Security Area for a chance to see North Korean soldiers standing at attention just dozens of feet away and to officially step into North Korean territory inside a United Nations-administered conference room that literally straddles the military border.Continued at: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/12/20/heres-what-its-like-worlds-most-dangerous-strip-land/964977001/
In perhaps the most notorious encounter between the North and South here, North Korean soldiers attacked a group of South Korean and U.S. soldiers who were pruning a poplar tree on Aug. 18, 1976. The North killed American Capt. Arthur Bonifas and Lt. Mark Barrett with axes and wounded several others.
I saw it from the air on my ride in an F16 but they wouldn't let me go there on the ground. There are plenty of areas much scarier.North KoreaYemenPakistanEast St LouisSouth ChicagoTijuana
You cross into North Korea, you'll be jailed for certain or at least, something along these lines. A lot of people go into Tijuana, Pakistan, even East St. Louis without any problems.
You cross into North Korea, you'll be jailed for certain or at least, something along these lines.
ISIS controlled area might be scarier. At the DMZ, there is a risk of a full-scale conflict breaking out.