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In January 2018, North Korea and South Korea met on the South Korean side of the JSA at the Inter-Korean Peace House [63] to discuss North Korea's participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics including a possible inter-Korean women's ice hockey team and North Korea's participation in ice skating pairs. [64]
The same day, 30 officials from both North and South Korea started an 18-day survey of a 400-kilometer (248-mile) railroad section in North Korea alongside the DMZ between Kaesong and Sinuiju. [ 80 ] [ 81 ] Efforts to conduct the survey had previously been obstructed due to the presence of the guard posts and the Arrowhead Hill landmines. [ 79 ]
The camp has a gift shop which sells DMZ- and JSA-related souvenirs. The camp, formerly known as Camp Kitty Hawk, was renamed on August 18, 1986, in honor of U.S. Army Captain Arthur G. Bonifas (posthumously promoted to major ), who along with First Lieutenant Mark T. Barrett (posthumously promoted to captain), were killed by North Korean ...
The MDL between the North (left) and South (right), marked by a concrete slab between the conference buildings on JSA. The DMZ runs near the 38th parallel, covering roughly 248 kilometers (154 mi). [4] American and South Korean soldiers patrol this line along the South Korean side while North Korean soldiers patrol along the North Korean side.
Panmunjom axe murder incident), also known domestically as the Panmunjom axe atrocity incident (판문점 도끼 만행 사건), was the killing of two United Nations Command officers, Captain Arthur Bonifas and First Lieutenant Mark Barrett, by North Korean soldiers on August 18, 1976, in the Joint Security Area (JSA) in the Korean ...
On January 23, 1968, the USS Pueblo was captured by North Korean naval forces in international waters off the coast of North Korea. After being held prisoner for 11 months, the crew was released and allowed to walk across the bridge while a forced confession by the captain of the vessel was broadcast over loudspeakers. [ 8 ]
North Korea has been building what it called a "socialist utopia" in Samjiyon, a city near the Chinese border, and "a model of highly-civilised mountain city" with new apartments, hotels, a ski ...
All meetings between North Korea and the United Nations Command or South Korea have taken place here since its completion. The JSA is often referred to as Panmunjom. After the war, all civilians were removed from the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), except for two villages near the JSA on opposite sides of the Military Demarcation Line. After ...