<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" > <channel> <title>JSA Archives | Chestnut Journal</title> <atom:link href="https://chestnutjournal.com/tag/jsa/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://chestnutjournal.com/tag/jsa/</link> <description>Vignettes of the World</description> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2018 01:42:09 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1</generator> <image> <url>https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Feather-Pen-Site-Logo.jpg?fit=32%2C30&ssl=1</url> <title>JSA Archives | Chestnut Journal</title> <link>https://chestnutjournal.com/tag/jsa/</link> <width>32</width> <height>32</height> </image> <site xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">149669438</site> <item> <title>South Korea – the DMZ, Panmunjom and the Conference Room</title> <link>https://chestnutjournal.com/2018/09/30/south-korea-the-dmz-panmunjom-and-the-conference-room/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[admin]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2018 10:40:35 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category> <category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Travels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[axe incident]]></category> <category><![CDATA[border]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chinese army]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DMZ]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ginseng]]></category> <category><![CDATA[joint security area]]></category> <category><![CDATA[JSA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[military administration building]]></category> <category><![CDATA[north korea]]></category> <category><![CDATA[panmunjom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paul French]]></category> <category><![CDATA[PLA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[polymer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[reunification of korea]]></category> <category><![CDATA[soviet]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://chestnutjournal.com/?p=922</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Military subsistence at the DMZ was supported by the Panmunjom Village. Villagers did not pay any taxes to the Korean government as it did not come under its administration. They grew food in their fields, and one important crop was ginseng. The area being off-bounds <a class="read-more" href="https://chestnutjournal.com/2018/09/30/south-korea-the-dmz-panmunjom-and-the-conference-room/">…</a></p> <p>The post <a href="https://chestnutjournal.com/2018/09/30/south-korea-the-dmz-panmunjom-and-the-conference-room/">South Korea – the DMZ, Panmunjom and the Conference Room</a> appeared first on <a href="https://chestnutjournal.com">Chestnut Journal</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Military subsistence at the DMZ was supported by the Panmunjom Village. Villagers did not pay any taxes to the Korean government as it did not come under its administration. They grew food in their fields, and one important crop was ginseng. The area being off-bounds to most human beings made it ideal for this cash crop to grow in isolation. It took six years to grow ginseng and only under shades. Thus when we passed by the fields we could see the black materials covering the soil. We were not allowed to take pictures of the village.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">There was, of course, a relationship between the troops and the villagers. They went in to teach village children English. The women could move about as they wished, but the men could not due to the military presence. There was not one woman there besides my fellow tourists.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">We passed by a golf course and the military guide said that it was the third most dangerous golf course in the world. Someone asked, “what would be the first and second most dangerous?” “First in Afghanistan,” he said, “second in Iraq.”</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">We then visited the shacks where the actual border was, the heart of tensions. We entered through the hall, then to the conference room, the site where the peace negotiations once took place. There were polymers in the middle of the conference table denoting the actual border of the two Koreas. We saw two South Korean soldiers guarding the conference room. They wore their military helmets with Koreans words on them. One stood where the UN Flag was, right at the border. He would beat anyone who attempted to desecrate the UN Flag.</p> <p><img data-recalc-dims="1" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-680" src="https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k004.jpg?resize=300%2C201&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="201" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k004.jpg?resize=300%2C201&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k004.jpg?resize=150%2C100&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k004.jpg?resize=768%2C514&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k004.jpg?resize=1024%2C685&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k004.jpg?w=1600&ssl=1 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> <img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-940" src="https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DSC_0025.jpg?resize=300%2C201&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="201" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DSC_0025.jpg?resize=300%2C201&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DSC_0025.jpg?resize=150%2C100&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DSC_0025.jpg?resize=768%2C514&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DSC_0025.jpg?resize=1024%2C685&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DSC_0025.jpg?w=2400&ssl=1 2400w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DSC_0025.jpg?w=3600&ssl=1 3600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">This was as close as it gets for a foreigner to “go to North Korea” without a VISA. As we could walk freely inside the conference room, we made symbolic entry into the North. The guide was just taking note of how the North Korean soldiers would peep into the conference room when the tourists visit, and there they were, looking on at us from the outside, intending to intimidate us. It did send chills down my spine.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> “You are not to communicate with them, directly or indirectly,” Officer Pearson said. “Can we take pictures of them through the window?” “No, you cannot,” he said, “in fact, do not even look back at them.</p> <a href='https://chestnutjournal.com/home/dsc_0042/'><img decoding="async" width="300" height="201" src="https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DSC_0042.jpg?fit=300%2C201&ssl=1" class="attachment-medium size-medium" alt="" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DSC_0042.jpg?w=3872&ssl=1 3872w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DSC_0042.jpg?resize=150%2C100&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DSC_0042.jpg?resize=300%2C201&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DSC_0042.jpg?resize=768%2C514&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DSC_0042.jpg?resize=1024%2C685&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DSC_0042.jpg?w=2400&ssl=1 2400w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DSC_0042.jpg?w=3600&ssl=1 3600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a> <a href='https://chestnutjournal.com/chestnut-blog-k008/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300" height="201" src="https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k008.jpg?fit=300%2C201&ssl=1" class="attachment-medium size-medium" alt="" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k008.jpg?w=1600&ssl=1 1600w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k008.jpg?resize=150%2C100&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k008.jpg?resize=300%2C201&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k008.jpg?resize=768%2C514&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k008.jpg?resize=1024%2C685&ssl=1 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a> <a href='https://chestnutjournal.com/chestnut-blog-k005-2/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300" height="201" src="https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k005-1.jpg?fit=300%2C201&ssl=1" class="attachment-medium size-medium" alt="" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k005-1.jpg?w=1600&ssl=1 1600w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k005-1.jpg?resize=150%2C100&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k005-1.jpg?resize=300%2C201&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k005-1.jpg?resize=768%2C514&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k005-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C685&ssl=1 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a> <a href='https://chestnutjournal.com/chestnut-blog-k009/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300" height="201" src="https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k009.jpg?fit=300%2C201&ssl=1" class="attachment-medium size-medium" alt="" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k009.jpg?w=1600&ssl=1 1600w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k009.jpg?resize=150%2C100&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k009.jpg?resize=300%2C201&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k009.jpg?resize=768%2C514&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k009.jpg?resize=1024%2C685&ssl=1 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a> <p style="text-align: justify;">We left the conference room and went back far behind from the border. At the steps of the building we looked far onto the military administration building in the North. Three large Korean words were on display there, but I forgot what they meant. A soldier stood on the steps very far away, and the view was of such communist menace, conveyed on a typical communist-styled building, that spoke loud intimidation past the distance.</p> <p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-689" src="https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k006.jpg?resize=300%2C201&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="201" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k006.jpg?resize=300%2C201&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k006.jpg?resize=150%2C100&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k006.jpg?resize=768%2C514&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k006.jpg?resize=1024%2C685&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k006.jpg?w=1600&ssl=1 1600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">I looked on, almost with tears in my eyes. I wondered how it was that a country once one could be split along the rift of ideology. Centuries of common heritage did not hold it together. Could it have been Karl Marx’s mistake, or the motives of the powers of the world, that drove the wheel of history in the century past, causing one people in a relatively small nation in Asia to go their separate ways, each choosing ideas that were incompatible but neither represented the best of humanity?</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Soldiers from the North and the South guarded the border at arm’s length to each other, but really living two worlds apart. Would they not wonder what life was like on the other side? Would it be better living in a world where truth was not allowed, or living in a world where truth can only come by with a lifetime’s effort to unmask the web of materialism that numbs the best of one’s soul?</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">We could freely take photographs from afar at the South Korean steps. By now, quite a number of the North Korean soldiers have come out. They pretended to take photos of each other at first, but a while later they stopped pretending and just took images of us. I was sure my loud yellow down jacket would go down their records as the best propaganda material for the North Korean regime. Two more South Korean soldiers came out and guarded between us and the North Korean soldiers.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The North Korean soldiers wore the classic communist military attire, reminding me of the older Soviet uniforms and Chinese PLA uniforms in a bygone era. Maybe even in their dress code the North Koreans guarded the orthodoxy of communism,<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a> or perhaps they did not have the means to upgrade to the helmets that the South Korean soldiers were wearing. The true distance between the two Koreas was evident in plain sight.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">We left the building and saw the South Korean Peace Museum, which ironically housed the two axes that killed the two UN commanders in the Axe Incident. The building was already ahead of its time, its significance to be celebrated when one day the two Koreas are reunited. It will act as a vivid reminder to future generations that peace was really a long path of past rife eventually reconciled, and it never comes by easily.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">We visited the Dora lookout, but could not take photographs of the building or beyond the yellow line. “There is internet there,” the guide said. I thought what he really meant was satellite surveillance. There, once again, North Korea’s landscape exhibited itself in a haze, standing still in an unreachable distance.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1">[1]</a> Paul French has a very good section on North Korea’s spin on communism. See Paul French, North Korea, State of Paranoia, chapter 2.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><em>This is part of a series on the Demilitarized Zone at the 38th Parallel separating North and South Koreas. Please visit the other entries in this series below:</em></p> <p><a href="https://chestnutjournal.com/2018/09/28/south-korea-the-dmz-and-the-bollinger-hall/">South Korea – The DMZ and the Bollinger Hall</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://chestnutjournal.com/2018/09/29/south-korea-the-dmz-and-the-bridge-of-no-return/">South Korea – The DMZ and the Bridge of No return</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://chestnutjournal.com/2018/10/01/south-korea-the-dmz-and-the-infiltration-tunnels/">South Korea – The DMZ and the Infiltration Tunnels</a>.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://chestnutjournal.com/2018/09/30/south-korea-the-dmz-panmunjom-and-the-conference-room/">South Korea – the DMZ, Panmunjom and the Conference Room</a> appeared first on <a href="https://chestnutjournal.com">Chestnut Journal</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">922</post-id> </item> <item> <title>South Korea – the DMZ and the Bollinger Hall</title> <link>https://chestnutjournal.com/2018/09/28/south-korea-the-dmz-and-the-bollinger-hall/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[admin]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2018 13:01:22 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category> <category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Travels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[38 parallel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bollinger hall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Busan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[camp bonifas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[China Aid Volunteers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[communism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[demilitarized zone]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DMZ]]></category> <category><![CDATA[incheon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Japanese colonialization]]></category> <category><![CDATA[joint security area]]></category> <category><![CDATA[JSA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[korean war]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MacArthur]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MacArthur Landing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[north korea]]></category> <category><![CDATA[panmunjom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paul French]]></category> <category><![CDATA[soviet union]]></category> <category><![CDATA[State of Paranoia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[USO]]></category> <category><![CDATA[WWII]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://chestnutjournal.com/?p=915</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>“There ain’t no D in the DMZ.”[1] It was a privilege for those from the West to be able to see the DMZ and Panmunjom via a U.S. tour organized by the USO. If I kept my Hong Kong identity, I could not have gone.  <a class="read-more" href="https://chestnutjournal.com/2018/09/28/south-korea-the-dmz-and-the-bollinger-hall/">…</a></p> <p>The post <a href="https://chestnutjournal.com/2018/09/28/south-korea-the-dmz-and-the-bollinger-hall/">South Korea – the DMZ and the Bollinger Hall</a> appeared first on <a href="https://chestnutjournal.com">Chestnut Journal</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">“<em>There ain’t no D in the DMZ.</em>”<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">It was a privilege for those from the West to be able to see the DMZ and Panmunjom via a U.S. tour organized by the USO. If I kept my Hong Kong identity, I could not have gone. The South Koreans also could not go freely. They would have to apply for a special permit, which could take up to half a year, to see the area.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The tour guide was an English speaking Korean and he talked a bit about the rules on our way to the DMZ. Of the most importance was no provocation when we were at the border. Secondly, we were to hold the strictest observance on orders where there shall be no pictures taken.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">When he came around to take my order for lunch, I said bibimbab and he asked if I were Korean American. I was flattered.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The bus ride from the USO to Panmunjom took more than an hour. Once we arrived, we changed bus and were led to the Bollinger Hall, “In Front of Them All.” The spirit of confrontation was evident, and one would not miss the tensions already felt at the sight of military presence. At Bollinger Hall, we first signed a liability release. I was so nervous that my hand shook as I scribbled my signature.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">We had a 20-minute presentation, military styled. I was not quite used to the military representative Officer Pearson’s accent, and also the presenter spoke in words like a rapid-fire machine gun. There were more details in the presentation than I could jot down. It covered the detailed history behind WWII and the subsequent division of Korea into two along the 38<sup>th</sup> Parallel.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The division could be deemed a historical accident. The 38<sup>th</sup> Parallel was originally there to denote the Japanese occupation of the peninsula in the south. At the time of division there were more Koreans living in the north than in the south. After WWII, the United States established a government in South Korea, which was freed from Japanese colonialization, by holding elections. North Korea was becoming red, meanwhile, the Soviets refused to hold elections and instead set up a government headed by Kim Il Sang.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Kim Il Sang came to power in 1946. He was succeeded by Kim Jong Il, his son, after his death in 1994. Now that Kim Jong Il has died in 2010 and was succeeded by Kim Jong Un, that would be the only succession of power by direct lineage in all of the communist world’s history.<a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2">[2]</a></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">With two governments in Korea it became inevitable that there would be two Koreas, the North and the South. The 38<sup>th</sup> Parallel then became the border.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">When the Korean War broke out in 1950, the peninsula became the battleground between the two Koreas, and the grand theater of conflict between their respective sponsors, the communist world (mainly China) and the West (the United States). When the North Koreans invaded the South, they managed to take territory all the way south, save for Busan, with the aid of the Chinese Army (they were called the China Aid Volunteers.) Then General MacArthur led the American troops and landed first in Incheon (thus the MacArthur Landing). They managed to recapture the territory all the way up to the 38<sup>th</sup> Parallel. There was a standstill at the 38<sup>th</sup> Parallel and the war dragged on. The war caused enormous casualties on both sides, with millions of lives lost.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The conflict only ended when an armistice was agreed by all relevant parties. Pursuant to the armistice signed in 1953, the United Nations set up a demilitarized zone (DMZ) along the 38<sup>th</sup> Parallel, where it was intended that there would be no military actions. Yet, as quoted at the beginning of this entry, the DMZ is an area of tension that is hardly demilitarized. I would soon be told the stories of confrontation in this strip of the border.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Still today, the DMZ is the epitome of an uneasy peace, peace it was that never fully materialized in this part of the world.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1">[1]</a> Paul French, North Korea, State of Paranoia, at 5, the phrase is a GI saying.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2">[2]</a> This was a claim made during the history presentation at the DMZ. But see Paul French, <em>id.</em> at 96-97.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">.<img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-690" src="https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k002.jpg?resize=300%2C201&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="201" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k002.jpg?resize=300%2C201&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k002.jpg?resize=150%2C100&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k002.jpg?resize=768%2C514&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k002.jpg?resize=1024%2C685&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/chestnutjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/chestnut-blog-k002.jpg?w=1600&ssl=1 1600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p> <p> </p> <p><em>This is part of a series on the Demilitarized Zone at the 38th Parallel separating North and South Koreas. Please visit the other entries in this series below:</em></p> <p><a href="https://chestnutjournal.com/2018/09/29/south-korea-the-dmz-and-the-bridge-of-no-return/">South Korea – The DMZ and the Bridge of No Return</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://chestnutjournal.com/2018/09/30/south-korea-the-dmz-panmunjom-and-the-conference-room/">South Korea – The DMZ, the Panmunjom and the Conference Room</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://chestnutjournal.com/2018/10/01/south-korea-the-dmz-and-the-infiltration-tunnels/">South Korea – The DMZ and the Infiltration Tunnels</a>.</p> <p> </p> <p>The post <a href="https://chestnutjournal.com/2018/09/28/south-korea-the-dmz-and-the-bollinger-hall/">South Korea – the DMZ and the Bollinger Hall</a> appeared first on <a href="https://chestnutjournal.com">Chestnut Journal</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">915</post-id> </item> </channel> </rss>