DMZ: Road trip to 'the world's most heavily armed border'

Fri, 12/02/2011 - 04:55 — Anonymous Tour guides share stories of
heartbreaking escapes at the most fascinating tourist site on earth As the
tour bus moves from central Seoul to the city outskirts, the seamless
transition from one of the world's biggest and most vibrant cities to the
"world's most heavily armed border"  is as surreal as it is functional,
with roadside bus stops soon giving way to security fence and military
watchtowers. "Many South Koreans don't think so much about the North",
opines So Yeon (real name withheld for security reasons), a North Korean
defector in her mid-thirties currently working for the Seoul-based Panmunjom
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