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  Panmunjeom travel guide - Wikitravel
Panmunjeom (판문점), also P'anmunjŏm, is on the demarcation line between North and South Korea.
A unique living relic of the Cold War era, Panmunjeom is a small village that happened to lie at the final battle front of the Korean War.
Visits to Panmunjeom from the South Korean side must be arranged in advance as part of an organized tour, although for foreigners three days notice usually suffices.
wikitravel.org /en/Panmunjeom   (1790 words)

  
  Panmunjeom - Galbijim
Panmunjeom in Gyeonggi-do is a village on the de facto border between North and South Korea, where the 1953 armistice that halted the Korean War was signed.
A North Korean tunnel presumably constructed to conduct infiltration and invasion was discovered approximately 3 miles SSE of the village of Panmunjeom in 1978.
Some landmarks of Panmunjeom, like the Joint Security Area and the Bridge of No Return, were portrayed in the popular South Korean movie JSA.
wiki.galbijim.com /Panmunjeom   (964 words)

  
  Korean Demilitarized Zone Information
Apart from Panmunjeom, the Joint Security Area and two model villages, the DMZ is devoid of humans and their machinery, other than a large number of landmines.
Panmunjeom (RR)/P'anmunjŏm (MR) is the site of the negotiations that ended the Korean War and is the main centre of human activity in the DMZ.
Except in the area around the truce village of Panmunjeom and more recently on the Donghae Bukbu Line on the east coast, humans for the most part have not entered the DMZ in the last fifty years.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Korean_Demilitarized_Zone   (1457 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Panmunjeom
Panmunjeom in Gyeonggi province is a village on the de facto border between North and South Korea, where the 1953 armistice that halted the Korean War was signed.
Panmunjeom is mentioned in one of Billy Joel's greatest hits/history themed song "We Didn't Start the Fire".
Panmunjeom (and the peace talks there) is often mentioned in the TV series M*A*S*H, and in the season 7 episode "Peace on Us", Hawkeye Pierce goes there in an attempt to personally plead with the negotiation parties to halt the conflict.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Panmunjeom   (729 words)

  
 Invil - Welcome to Invil ~ !
Panmunjeom is the site where the of the wounds caused by the national division is shown in minute detail, and also a window for dialogue and reconciliation towards national unification.
Panmunjeom, a joint security area, placed on the Military Demarcation Line across the middle of the Korean Peninsula directly represents the painful realities of national division.
However, Panmunjeom is the place where the expectations of 70 million Koreans are expressed since it is the only 'Open Corridor' that connects the two Koreas out of 155 miles of the armistice line blocked across the North and South.
www.invil.org /eng/cul_tour/uni/contents.jsp?con_no=12704   (136 words)

  
 Panmunjeom
Panmunjeom (P'anmunjŏm) in Gyeonggi province is a village on the border between North and South Korea, where the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War was signed.
Being at the centre of one of the world's most tense military and political fault lines, Panmunjeom has been the location of numerous high profile incidents.
Several tunnels underneath the vicinity of the village, allegedly built by the North Koreans for use in a surprise attack, were discovered in the 1970s.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/p/pa/panmunjeom.html   (225 words)

  
 Panmunjeom: Viele Informationen uber Panmunjeom an OnlineEnzyklopaedie.de
Panmunjeom (auch Panmunjŏn, koreanisch 판문점) ist eine Gedenkstätte in Korea.
Während des Koreakrieges (1950-1953) war Panmunjeom Verhandlungsort der Waffenstillstandsgespräche zwischen der UNO und Nordkorea.
Heute ist Panmunjeom der Verhandlungsort zwischen den beiden koreanischen Staaten sowie zwischen dem UN-Kommando und der Nordkoreanischen Armee.
www.onlineenzyklopaedie.de /p/pa/panmunjeom.html   (121 words)

  
 Life in Korea: Korea travel, culture, shopping, information, communities
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Panmunjeom is the only place available for communications between South Korea and North Korea.
This is the historice testified partition of the Korean Peninsula and the Cold War.
www.lifeinkorea.com   (474 words)

  
 DMZ   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A North Korean guard stands at attention outside of a surveillance tower at Panmunjeom in the DMZ.
Panmunjeom is a village of buildings inside the DMZ and straddles the border between the two Koreas.
This is a tourist observation tower at Panmunjeom.
plannedchaos.org /korea-dmz.html   (1607 words)

  
 Korea Travel: Panmunjeom (Gyeonggi Province)
Panmunjeom is unique in that it is under the joint management of the United Nations Command (UNC) and North Korea.
However, since the 1976 ax murder incident (in which North Korean guards attacked a UNC work party and killed two American officers), the sentries have been separated and the Joint Security Area split in half.
Blue jeans, shorts, or any other provocative clothes are not allowed, and visitors must bring their passport.
www.lifeinkorea.com /Travel2/kyonggi/218   (844 words)

  
 Seoul Metropolitan Government - "A Clean, Attractive & Global City, Seoul!"
Korean 3rd Tunnel is one of the several underground tunnels dug under the DMZ by the North Korea for the purpose of infiltrating troops into South Korea in case of hostilities.
It is deep under the surface and tourists are invited to descend to the bottom to view it for themselves.
Panmunjeom is the place where the Armistice Agreement was made during the Korean War.
english.seoul.go.kr /today/about/about_03disc_0401.html   (520 words)

  
 Panmunjeom Information
Panmunjeom in Gyeonggi province is a village on the de facto border between North and South Korea, where the 1953 armistice that halted the Korean War was signed.
A number of defections have taken place over the years, the most recent being the defection of North Korean People's Army Senior Captain Byun on February 3rd, 1998.
Panmunjeom itself is mentioned in Billy Joel's history themed song "We Didn't Start the Fire".
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Panmunjeom   (896 words)

  
 Invil - Welcome to Invil ~ !
The major content of the agreement was to establish the Headquarters zone of the Military Armistice Commission within 4km north and south of the DMZ, in which the 800m diameter JSA would be established.
As a result, Panmunjeom has become a JSA unprecedented anywhere in the world, in which both confronting countries, the United Nations Forces and Communist Army of North Korea, jointly own and occupy.
Panmunjeom includes 7 Quonset huts located on the Military Demarcation Line, 'the House of Freedom' and 'the House of Peace' in the South, 'Panmunkak' and 'Tongilkak' in the North, several guard posts and the inter-Korean liaison offices.
www.invil.org /eng/cul_tour/uni/contents.jsp?con_no=12705   (314 words)

  
 Panmunjeom at AllExperts
After the cease-fire was signed, construction began in September of 1953 on a new site located approximately one kilometer east of the village; this is the Joint Security Area and all meetings between North Korea and the United Nations Command or South Korea have taken place here since its completion.
After the war, when all civilians were removed from the DMZ (except for two villages near the JSA on opposite sides of the MDL), the empty village of Panmunjeom fell into disrepair and eventually disappeared from the landscape.
* A North Korean tunnel presumably constructed to conduct infiltration and invasion was discovered approximately 3 miles SSE of the village of Panmunjeom in 1978.
en.allexperts.com /e/p/pa/panmunjeom.htm   (936 words)

  
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Panmunjeom is situated on the Military Demarcation Line, the most acute and dangerous place where lots of observation posts and all-time-ready heavy guns were deployed from the enemy by tens of meters.
Kim Il Sung was a landmark event which rendered the Korean people the conviction and invincible will of the reunification and dealt a hard blow and fear to the anti-reunification forces at home and abroad.
Kim Jong Il, who overpowered the anti-reunification forces without firing a shot and put up Panmunjeom, a symbol of national division, as the symbol of reunification, will shine forever along with the history of the nation.
uk.geocities.com /juche007/UKSongun-11.htm   (857 words)

  
 KNTO Destination Guide - Panmunjeom 판문점   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Panmunjeom is located about 50 kilometers north of Seoul on National Road No.1 (also called Tongil-ro; Unification Road).
Panmunjeom is also the site of the Armistice which ended the fighting of the Korean War.
South of the main conference room of Panmunjeom stands the Freedom house, jointly guarded by the U.N. forces and ROK (Republic of Korea)army.
www.visitkorea.or.kr /eng/info_db/dest/sight_detail.jsp?seqno=1413   (368 words)

  
 Welcome to ICCAS2005
Panmunjeom is located in the Joint Security Area, which is in the demilitarized zone, 50 km north from Seoul and 10 km east from the city of Gaeseong.
This place is most well-known for the peace talks that were held here on October 25, 1951 and was designated as the Joint Security Area on July 27, 1953 when the armistice agreement was igned.
Once used as a management office, Panmunjeom has been used as now a conference room since the Red Cross held an international conference here on September 20, 1971.
2005.iccas.org /accommo/sightseeing.asp   (475 words)

  
 [Editorial] Panmunjom After Half a Century : English Editorials : Internet Hankyoreh
Guarding the Joint Security Area (JSA) at Panmunjeom, a symbol of the intra-Korean division, has become the work of the Korean military.
Now there are physical changes with the fact the US 2nd Infantry Division is being redeployed to a rear position, and the security of Panmunjeom, symbol of the armistice, is now the responsibility of the Korean military.
The US battalion commander at Panmunjeom says that increasing the role of the Korean military will increase its capacity to defend the Korean peninsula, but even without those words the transfer of responsibility is very significant.
www.hani.co.kr /section-001100000/2004/11/001100000200411030305001.html   (406 words)

  
 Asiana Airlines - Travel Planner : Travel Guide - GoCity   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Only eight hundred meters2 in total, Panmunjeom is a security area protected by both North Korean and South Korean-UN military forces.
Actually, it is a restricted area for civilians, thus the filmmakers of JSA conducted thorough research and field studies in order to recreate the true essence of Panmunjeom at the Yangsuri Film Studio Complex.
Costing about 900 million won, the re-creation of Panmunjeom took a little more than a year in 1999, and now it has become a must-visit place for Korean film-lovers of JSA.
us.flyasiana.com /Travelplanner/travelplanner_sightseeing_drama_jsa.asp   (499 words)

  
 Korea's DMZ and JSA at Panmunjom - by Pat's World
Panmunjeom is located near the west end of the 155-mile truce line and represents the partition of Korea.
Informal contacts have been held between the UNC and the North Korean Panmunjeom mission since May 1994.
The Military Demarcation Line (MDL) of the Joint Security Area runs through the middle of Panmunjeom and even the meeting buildings.
www.f-106deltadart.com /Korea-DMZ/history.htm   (931 words)

  
 Space Imaging :: Image of the Week   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Panmunjeom is located about 50 kilometers north of Seoul on the Tongil-ro Highway.
Panmunjeom is the site of the July 27, 1953 armistice negotiations that ended the Korean war.
Since the signing of the Armistice, Panmunjeom has been the location where north meets south to discuss military, economic, and political problems.
www.spaceimaging.com /gallery/ioweek/archive/03-07-20/index.htm   (397 words)

  
 KBS GLOBAL
The joint security area, or JSA for short, refers to an 800 meter-wide part of Panmunjeom where the Armistice Agreement was negotiated in 1953.
The decision to keep those U.S. troops on the DMZ is also aimed at combating North Korea's claim that moving U.S. troops back from the border would make it easier for Washington to launch a preemptive strike against the communist state.
The truce village of Panmunjeom is now under the control of the United Nations.
english.kbs.co.kr /news/issue/1334331_11780.html   (806 words)

  
 Ari on the web: Panmunjeom and the DMZ
The flags appear remarkably close together, and it is jarring to think of just how trecherous a journey it is to go from one flag to the other.
Finally, we moved on to Panmunjeom, the front line between North and South Korea.
Given the proximity and the boredom, it seems likely that there is some small talk that goes on between soldiers across the divide, although there was none evident when we were there.
ariontheweb.blogspot.com /2005/03/panmunjeom-and-dmz.html   (1061 words)

  
 koreatips.net   (Site not responding. Last check: )
[Imjingak and Panmunjeom I Ilsan Lake Park I Seoul Land I Suwon Hwaseong I Korean Folk Village I Icheon Pottery Village I Everland]
14 kilometers further north, Panmunjeom is the location where the armistice was signed in 1953 ending three years of fighting.
Foreign tourists who bring their passports may participate in the Panmunjeom tour.
www.koreatips.net /english/cities/seoul_around01.html   (219 words)

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