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	Asia and Oceania
		A narrow zone called the "green line," patrolled by UN forces, separates the two regions and divides Nicosia, the national capital.
		A demilitarized zone (DMZ), 4,000 m (13,100 ft) wide, covering 1,262 sq km (487 sq mi), and located north and south of the 38th parallel, separates the DPRK from the ROK, which occupies the southern part of the Korean Peninsula.
		A demilitarized zone (DMZ), 4,000 m (13,100 ft) wide, covering 1,262 sq km (487 sq mi) and located north and south of the 38th parallel, separates the ROK from the DPRK, which comprises the northern part of the Korean Peninsula.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Asia-and-Oceania (6262 words)

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		Yigil is a farming village near the demilitarized zone dividing South Korea from North Korea.
		The village lies inside what is called the civilian control zone, an area extending about 15 kilometers, or 10 miles, south of the DMZ and restricted to residents and soldiers.
		Interest in land just south of the demilitarized zone increased after the first such meeting in 2000, as the threat of war diminished and South Korea adopted a policy of engaging the North economically and politically.
	www.nkdf.or.kr /jbbs/bbs.html?mode=view&bcode=com1&no=1490 (1009 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - Korean Demilitarized Zone
		Little is known about the extent of wildlife populations to the north, due to political isolation and the inability of scientists to explore in the border regions north of the MDL.
		The zone appears quite clear in the western half where it stands out as the wide green swath through the countryside where cultivation on either side of the zone leaves the ground more barren and brownish in color.
		The bright grey region on the coastal area south of the DMZ and on the western side of the country is South Korea’s capital city, Seoul.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=15362 (683 words)

	KoreanWar.com - Exclusive content on the Korean War, soldier biographies, memorials, veteran stories, and more.
		The Korean War Armistice, hammered out in 1953, brought an end to the Korean War, a war which was never officially declared in the first place.
		When the Korean War Armistice was finally signed on July 27th, 1953, negotiation talks had been ongoing for a little more than two years, held up by the prisoner issues and the location of the demarcation line between North and South Korea.
		As you read this, the Korean War Armistice represents merely a discontinuance of the fighting to a horrific war that was never declared to begin with.
	www.koreanwar.com /the_korean_war_armistice.htm (1169 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Korean Demilitarized Zone
		The DMZ cuts the Korean Peninsula roughly in half, crossing the 38th parallel on an acute angle, with the west end of the DMZ lying south of the parallel and the east end lying north of it.
		Vietnam: The demilitarized zone between North and South Vietnam was established in April, 1954 as a result of the Geneva Conference ending the war between the Viet Minh and the French.
		The Demilitarized Zone (or DMZ) in Korea is a strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula that serves as a buffer zone between North and South Korea.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Korean-Demilitarized-Zone (590 words)

	Case Study
		The armistice established a Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that was created with the intent of providing a buffer zone between the North and the South that would help to preserve the armistice treaty.
		While the Korean war was seen as a seminal event in the unfolding of the Cold War by the rest of the world, it had dire effects on Korea.
		The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) was created by the armistice at the end of the Korean War in order to keep a safe and protected distance between North and South Korea.
	www.american.edu /ted/ice/dmz.htm (1882 words)

	Korean DMZ
		The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that divides the two Koreas is the most heavily fortified border in the world, bristling with watchtowers, razor wire, landmines, tank-traps and heavy weaponry.
		If North Korean forces ever crossed the DMZ again the United States is automatically at war -- under a 1954 treaty backed by United Nations resolutions the U.S. is committed to defend South Korea.
		Virtually undisturbed for half a century the zone has also become a rugged natural haven for several endangered species including the white-naped and red-crowned cranes as well as nearly extinct Korean subspecies of tiger and leopard.
	moneycentral.groups.msn.com /KoreanDMZ (473 words)

	CTV.ca \| Warning shots fired along tense Korean border
		South Korean soldiers move along the barbed-wire fence as they patrol the border line in the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas at Panmunjom, north of Seoul, in this file photo.
		South Korean troops fired warning shots Saturday October 7, 2006, after five North Korean soldiers crossed a boundary in the Demilitarized Zone separating the two countries, South Korean military officials said.
		The buffer zone was created with the declaration a ceasefire in the Korean War more than 50 years ago (the two sides are technically still at war).
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061007/korea_shots_061007/20061007?hub=CTVNewsAt11 (620 words)

	Amazed World
		The installation abounded with an artistic vision of peace based on the request for children to draw their hopes and dreams for the future.
		The UN exhibition was preceded by Kang's 1999 installation 100,000 Dreams, situated in the South Korean demilitarized zone.
		The walls were supported by five traditional beams to signify the five conceptual directions or "activities" of harmony and universe as suggested by the Korean philosophy of Danchung.
	www.amazedworld.com /eamazed/eend/eend2_2002_1.htm (689 words)

	Life in Korea: Cultural Spotlight
		Korean War Korea gained independence from Japan in August 1945 at the end of WWII.
		Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the symbol of the ideological dispute between North and South Korea and poignant reminder of the Korean War (1950-53), winds 155 miles across the Korean Peninsula.
		Traditional Clothing Korean traditional clothing is both brilliant in its bright colorings and subdued in its flowing lines and the way it hides the body shape.
	www.lifeinkorea.com /Culture/spotlight.cfm (1312 words)

	DMZ - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		The abbreviation DMZ typically refers to a demilitarized zone, an area where military equipment and activity are prohibited.
		DMZ is written by Brian Wood, with artwork by Wood and Riccardo Burchielli (the Italian artist's...
		Korean Demilitarized Zone The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is an area of land 4 kilometers-wide strip of land straddling the 151 mile long Military Demarcation Line...
	au.encarta.msn.com /DMZ.html (127 words)

	Untitled Document
		Korean exports crossed the landmark US$200 billion threshold in terms of annual total in late October this year.
		On Oct. 28, President Roh Moo-hyun participated in a ceremony to dedicate the new Korean headquarters of the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in a program to facilitate related technology transfer and to develop vaccines for childhood epidemic diseases around the world like cholera.
		For the past half century, one of the slogans heard frequently in the Korean demilitarized zone has been "the train will run again," referring to the disconnected railroad that symbolized a divided Korea and hope for reunification.
	global.kita.net /webzine/WZMain.jsp (280 words)

	Viridian Note
		Enclosed by barbed wire and left virtually untouched since it was created in 1953, the zone has become a haven for animals, birds and plants that are seldom seen elsewhere on the peninsula.
		Tourists would be permitted just south of the zone in a so-called civilian-controlled area, a heavily militarized zone that includes cordoned-off minefields and roads flanked by antitank defenses.
		The tiger's importance in Korean culture was underscored during the 1988 Seoul Olympics, when it was chosen as South Korea's mascot.
	www.viridiandesign.org /notes/401-450/00423_korean_involuntary_park.html (1311 words)

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		Koreans are a very proud people who have made unparalleled progress in rebuilding their country from the Japanese colonial period and the ashes of the Korean War.
		Koreans will usually find a way to work with you or find flexibility for you when you're in a bind, if you are sincere.
		Koreans take off their shoes in their homes and in restaurants where they sit on the floor.
	www.usfk.mil /old/welcome/Communicating.doc (1429 words)

	DefenseLink News Article: Korean Economic Woes, Threat from North Concern Cohen
		CAMP BONIFAS, South Korea, Feb. 2, 1998 – With armed soldiers and the tall fence of the Demilitarized Zone as a backdrop, Secretary of Defense William Cohen braced freezing temperatures Jan. 21 to tell a throng of reporters why the United States needs land mines here.
		Defense Secretary William Cohen and reporters at the Korean Demilitarized Zone Jan. 21 discuss the importance of the U.S.-Korea alliance and how land mines buried there deter a North Korean attack.
		At a U.S. firing range near the Korean Demilitarized Zone, Defense Secretary William Cohen talks to members of the 2nd Infantry Division Jan. 21.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/newsarticle.aspx?id=41556 (429 words)

	The Paradoxes of the Demilitarized Zone \| Elizabeth D. Schafer\| Korean War \| OAH Magazine of History
		The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) was established by the 27 July 1953 armistice.
		Compare and contrast these zones, clarifying where, by whom, why, and the order in which they were established, as well as the current status of these divisive areas.
		Discuss the tragedy of Korean War refugees separated from their families and why the DMZ represents both hope and despair for the reunion of people and the two Koreas.
	www.oah.org /pubs/magazine/korea/schafer.html (1237 words)

	The ultimate North-South divide: Fore! Welcome to the world's most dangerous golf course - Independent Online Edition > ...
		If war were ever to break out on the Korean peninsula, the camp and its 400 or so United Nations soldiers expect to bear the full brunt of a military assault from a million-strong army.
		It was the first "hot" war of the Cold War era and, despite three years of bitter fighting, neither the Communist armies of North Korea, Russia and their Chinese "volunteers" on one side, nor South Korea and her US-led UN force had advanced beyond their original starting positions on the 38th parallel.
		In 1984, in the space of just a few minutes, three North Korean soldiers and one South Korean soldier were killed in Panmunjom after a gunfight broke out when a Russian diplomat took the opportunity to defect to the south while on a visit.
	news.independent.co.uk /world/asia/article2418431.ece (1456 words)

	Crossing the Line: The Korean Demilitarized Zone
		Tom Banse recently ventured into the Korean Demilitarized Zone, the thin strip of land that divides North from South.
		Don't be fooled by the term "demilitarized zone." This place bristles with troops, guns, barbed wire and fortifications.
		They're south Korean soldiers whose unlucky assignment is to peer into the flness behind the underground border.
	savvytraveler.publicradio.org /show/features/1999/19991127/korea.shtml (989 words)

	The DMZ : Tour2Korea.com
		The DMZ stretches some 248 kilometers across the Korean Peninsula from the mouth of the Imjin River in the west to the town of Goseong in the east.
		The demilitarized zone itself, where human activity has been greatly limited for the last half-century, has become one of Asia’s greatest nature preserves.
		Look carefully, and you’ll notice the two halves of the bridge are different: either North Koreans started building the bridge before the war and South Koreans finished it; or the Japanese started it before Liberation in 1945 and the US Army finished it to transport men and supplies to the front during the war.
	english.tour2korea.com /03Sightseeing/TravelSpot/travelspot_read.asp?oid=3730&kosm=m3_8 (1522 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		The South Korean capital of Seoul, population 11 million, is well within reach of North Korean artillery.
		But the North Koreans, at least since the early 1990s, have signaled a willingness to trade their weapons of mass destruction in return for better relations with the United States.
		Now, half a century later, the Demilitarized Zone along the 38th parallel stands as a reminder that the armistice was never replaced with a peace treaty.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0202/19/lol.00.html (3533 words)

	Stars and Stripes: Korean War rail relic hauled from DMZ to get refurbished
		DEMILITARIZED ZONE, Korea — Han Jun-gi last operated the hulking, rusted locomotive sitting before him on Monday as a crewman on the Kyongui line in 1950.
		It briefly fell back into allied hands before finding its resting place on tracks inside the demilitarized zone, where it has stood still for almost 56 years.
		The locomotive will then be returned to the DMZ, one bridge away from the final South Korean checkpoint and one mile from the military demarcation line that separates the two Koreas.
	www.estripes.com /article.asp?section=104&article=41655 (479 words)

	What is the DMZ in Korea?
		The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is a swath of land cutting across the Korean Peninsula, separating North from South Korea.
		Several tunnels have been discovered under the DMZ that were dug by the North Koreans, possibly as part of a plan to invade the south.
		The North Koreans often broadcast propaganda over loudspeakers and have constructed what is known as the tallest flagpole, at 525 feet (160 meters) tall.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-is-the-dmz-in-korea.htm (563 words)

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