Panmunjom Joint Security Area 판문점 (DMZ)

160km to Kaesong	The Pyongyang-Kaesong-Seoul Highway, North Korea	...not much traffic today	Rest area halfway between Pyongyang and Kaesong
The guides call this the Tea House	Mountain by the rest area, North Hwanghae Province, DPRK	Green fields of corn, rice and other vegetables, North Hwanghae Province, DPRK	A Korea International Tourist Corporation minibus
Souvenir DPRK flags at the Tea House	Arriving at Panmunjom on the border between North and South Korea	Map of the Panmumjom Joint Security Area	Map of the DPRK's side of Panmumjom
The Truce Village at Panmunjom along the Military Demarcation Line splitting Korea	A North Korean officer explains the JSA layout	U.S. Imperialist Aggressors and Puppet Stooges are here...	Monument with a copy of Kim Il Sung's final signature, 7 July 1994 - he died the next day
Monument to Autograph of Kim Il Sung said to be from a document related to national reunification	North Korean officer and the English translater being filmed by our group's cameraman	The South Korean House of Freedom behind one of the 7 meeting rooms straddling the border	Panmunjom Joint Security Area in the center of the DMZ
Panmunjom Joint Security Area looking at South Korea's House of Freedom	The border between North and South Korea runs through the middle of each of the blue huts	Meetings between North and South Korea take place in the huts	Panmunjom Joint Security Area looking at South Korea's House of Freedom
Panmungak (Thongil House) the main building on the North Korean side	On tours from both North and South, you enter one of the houses, not at the same time of course	A tour group receiving a lecture about the JSA from an American soldier	Inside one of the huts with our North Korean guide
The conference table is set directly over the border	A pair of North Korean soldiers on ROK territory make sure no one leaves through the wrong door	A South Korean Military Policeman peers in the window at us	Flags of the Republic of Korea, the USA, the UN, and the countries who fought on the UN side during the Korean War
North Korean soldier, Panmunjom	North Korean soldier, Panmunjom	Inside a conference hut on the border	These must be highly trusted North Korean soldiers
DPRK soldier on the ROK side of the hut guarding the southern door	DPRK soldier, Panmunjom	DPRK soldier, Panmunjom	Me sitting in North and South Korea
Conference Room at Panmunjom (with the DPRK guards wanting me to hurry up)	Panmungak (Thongil House) the main building on the North Korean side	Panmunjom Joint Security Area, Korea	Interesting to notice...both the North and South Koreans face north...
Panmunjom Joint Security Area from the balcony of the Panmungak Pavilion	Tourist observation tower on the South Korean side	Panorama of Panmunjom Joint Security Area from the balcony of the Panmungak Pavilion	A tour group on the South Korean side of the border
A tour group on the South Korean side of the border	Panmunjom Joint Security Area	Mirror in the North Korean pavilion with an artistic map of Korea	Monument dated 1951-1953
Meeting hall where the armistice talks between the DPRK and ROK-USA-UN forces were held in 1953	The small building where the armistice was negotioned in 1953	Lecture about the Armistice negotiations of 1953	Building where the armistice was signed, now the North Korea Peace Museum
... according to the North Koreans, where the U.S. surrender took place...	"25.6.50 the Americans started the war-they apologized down on their knees in front of us & agreed to break off the war 27.7.53"	North Korea Peace Museum, Panmunjom	Flag of the DPRK delegation on the original table
Armistice agreement ending the Korean War, though no peace treaty was ever signed	North Korea Peace Museum, Panmunjom	North Korea Peace Museum, Panmunjom	North Korea Peace Museum, Panmunjom