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In the Armistice Agreement of 27 July 1953, the DMZ was created as each side agreed to move their troops back 2,000 m (1.2 miles) from the front line, creating a buffer zone 4 km (2.5 mi) wide. The Military Demarcation Line (MDL) goes through the center of the DMZ and indicates where the front was when the agreement was signed.
The mission of UNCMAC is to supervise the Military Armistice Agreement between the two Koreas along the 151 mile Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). A demilitarized zone (DMZ or DZ) [1] is an area in which treaties or agreements between states, military powers or contending groups forbid military installations, activities, or personnel. A DZ often lies ...
Platoon troops are dispatched to each GP. Search soldiers' job is to monitor and patrol the DMZ. Most GPs are located on mountaintops for visibility. Search and guard operations in the DMZ are complicated by heavy bulletproof suits, ammunition, grenades, and bayonets. They experience heavy fatigue, as their actions require them to be fully armed.
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The tunnel is now a tourist site, though still well guarded. [9]Visitors enter either by walking down a long steep incline that starts in a lobby with a gift shop or via a rubber-tyred train that contains a driver at the front or the back (depending on the direction as there is only one set of rails) and padded seats facing forward and backwards in rows for up to three passengers each. [10]
Russia on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. resolution sponsored by the United States and Japan calling on all nations to prevent a dangerous nuclear arms race in outer space, calling it “a dirty ...
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Kijŏng-dong is one of two villages permitted to remain in the 4 km (2.5 mi) wide DMZ set up under the 1953 armistice during the Korean War; [6] [8] the other is the South Korean village of Daeseong-dong, [8] 2.22 kilometers (1.38 mi) away.