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 |