Any DMZ vets recall people driving golf balls off US guard posts back in the day? “The one-hole, 192-yard par-3 is made of artificial turf and sits less than 500 yards from the DMZ. Forget playing through roughs and trying to read greens. A duff here could send your ball into a literal minefield.” Source: […]
Korean and US team working in area where well-known Korean War battles occurred. “Around 60 South Korean military personnel and 10 from the U.S.’ Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) began the joint excavation work on Mount Baekseok in the northeastern county of Yanggu, which will continue through Sept. 16, according to the ministry.” Source: Korea, […]
We remember this incident and the alarm it caused. The author of this post was headed back to CONUS at the time and had just returned his winter clothing and boots; he wondered whether he might be headed back up to the ‘Z without his coat and “Mickey Mouse” boots. “When (Soviet citizen) Matuzok’s 1984 […]
“In the event of war, North Korea’s plan is to use overwhelming firepower and speed of action to conduct a ‘One Blow Non-Stop Attack.’ In 1992, Kim Jong-il, the father of current leader Kim Jong-un, concluded that only a lightning assault across the border, known as ‘Occupying South Korea, All the Way to Pusan, in […]
Check out the view of the barbed-wire fence outside the window… Source: This Café Beside The DMZ Is A Fascinating South Korean Attraction
The anniversary is coming up soon…
“South and North Korea reopened their hotlines…after a yearlong communications vacuum that had flared tensions and soured relations,” Reuters reports. Often described as a “hotline,” the communications channel actually includes multiple lines. The lines were terminated by North Korea after it complained about a lack of results from the 2019 summit between President Trump and […]
RoK personnel will be in the lead. US troops will not be on the ground for the mission, but did help with planning. “The recovery project is a collaboration between the U.N. Command and the Ministry of National Defense, according to a U.N. news release Thursday. The Cheorwon region, 57 miles northeast of Seoul, is […]
From a Corps of Engineers release (July 2021): “It was hard to locate the exact point since the point looking from the north was different from the point looking from the south. But by chance, on June 10, 1978, an explosion was detected in an old abandoned borehole, from what was apparently a faulty dynamite […]
“Starting July (2021), Yoon plans to launch a full-scale DMZ tourism experience focusing on ginseng, which he will be linking to his guesthouse (at Imjingak) and a ginseng farm within the Civilian Control Zone (CCZ). Participants in the tour will have an opportunity to harvest their own ginseng and to make processed foods, desserts, and […]