I see this superglue ad onettfand think it was jolly amusing . Oh , if only the UN could invest in a flake of gumshoe cement or Scotch tape and piece up the world !
Anyway , while I ’ve aim this great big pic of the Koreas up here , I figured I ’d cast out you3 Crazy Reasons to claver the Demilitarized Zone(the 155 mile - recollective , 2.5 statute mile - wide demarcation line dominion between North and South Korea ) culled straight from our last issue’sA Few Good Reasons to holiday in North Koreafeature .
2 . MEET THE LOCALS.About the only people living inside the Demilitarized Zone are a group of ex - refugee whom the South Korean government has allowed to resettle in their native lands . conjointly , DMZ residents live in a hamlet called T’aesong - dong ( or " Attaining Success Town" ) , otherwise know by the American military as " Freedom Village . “ Believe it or not , living in T’aesong - dong has some moderately dramatic perks . resident are exempt from military service and taxation and are passing affluent compared to their counterpart in rural South Korea . Of course , they also have to endure the day-after-day propaganda that ’s blast over speaker unit from the northerly side of the border . North Korea , incidentally , has its own moulding village , which shoot a line handsome houses , a bigger prescribed universe , and a much big pin than T’aesong - dong . How prominent is it ? So self-aggrandising that it takes eight gale forces of wind to even make the thing flitter — not that anyone cares . Observers have never see multitude in the village , and the windows on the houses appear to actually be painted on — moderate American soldier to call it " Propaganda Village . “3 . DIG A TUNNEL.Throughout the 1970s and 1980s , North Koreans spend a lot of time tunneling under the DMZ and into South Korean soil . The largest of these tunnels , the Third Tunnel of Aggression , was discovered in 1975 and extends a nautical mile into South Korea . U.S. military expert gauge that it could have funneled some 10,000 troops and fomite across ( or , rather , to a lower place ) the border in just an hour . Today , the South Korean government runs ' round - the - clock tunnel sensing team ( that reportedly include a few psychic ) to keep the North from doing any more of what it called " ember excavation . “ you may even tour the Third Tunnel of Aggression if you wish , but only from the South Korean side .
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