Panmunjeom, Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

At the border. South Korean (Republic of Korea) soldier on the right, North Korean (Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea) guardtower on the left:

With an ROK soldier inside the UN negotiations trailer that straddles the border:

The negotiations table inside the trailer. According to an American UN soldier who was present, a couple of weeks before my visit, Bush was in this very trailer for negotiations. Two DPRK soldiers entered the trailer, walked straight over to the wall of flags, tore down the US flag, and wiped their boots with it. Now, each nation has its own flag icon laminated onto a piece of plexiglass.

Danish UN soldiers guard the ROK side of the border. That marble slab is literally "the border":

Center for diplomacy on the ROK side:

DPRK guardtower:

A DPRK sniper watches from his post:

Kijungdong, DPRK, known to South Koreans and UN soldiers as "Propaganda Village." Allegedly no residents inhabit the city. The flag tower visible below is the tallest in the world; it was heightened after the ROK heightened their own tower in Panmunjeom:

The "Bridge of No Return" across the border. POWs were exchanged across the bridge after the war ended in 1953. It also opened the racist 2002 James Bond film "Die Another Day".