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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Foster Klug

The surreal Korean border village where a US soldier crossed into the North

AP2009

Blue-roofed huts, a raised slab of concrete and some raked gravel are all that separate the rival Koreas at Panmunjom, a rare point of close contact along the most heavily armed border in the world.

People have stepped across that thin dividing line, but only under very special circumstances, passing between two nations that are still technically at war.

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