{"id":56243,"date":"2018-01-09T19:41:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T19:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/01\/09\/venue-for-korea-talks-is-potential-flash-point-inside-border\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:04:21","slug":"venue-for-korea-talks-is-potential-flash-point-inside-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/01\/09\/venue-for-korea-talks-is-potential-flash-point-inside-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Venue for Korea talks is potential flash point inside border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SEOUL, South Korea \u2014 The two Koreas\u2019 rare high-profile talks Tuesday took place at the jointly controlled area inside the world\u2019s most heavily fortified border \u2014 the same place where North Korean soldiers recently sprayed bullets at a colleague who was making a daring dash for freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The defecting soldier was hit five times, but he survived and is now recovering in South Korea. The dramatic video of his defection, released by the American-led U.N. command, showed again why the area, called Panmunjom, is known as one of the scariest places on Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18009269808292.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-98511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18009269808292.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18009269808292.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18009269808292.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This combination of file images made from Nov. 13, 2017, surveillance video released by the United Nations Command shows a North Korean soldier running from a jeep and then shot by North Korean soldiers in Panmunjom, North Korea, before collapsing across the border in South Korea. (United Nations Command via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, Panmunjom captured international headlines again when a group of high-level North Korean officials walked across concrete slabs that make up a military demarcation line for their first formal talks with South Korea in more than two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A look at Panmunjom, whose mystique makes the place not only a potential flash point, but also a venue for talks and a tourist site:<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/01\/09\/north-korea-taking-part-in-south-korean-olympics-after-talks\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18009127179586.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">North Korea taking part in South Korean Olympics after talks<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The rival Koreas moved toward reducing their bitter animosity Tuesday during rare talks, with North Korea agreeing to take part in next month\u2019s Winter Olympics in South Korea. The countries also agreed to hold more discussions on easing tension along their border and to reopen a military hotline.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NO-MAN\u2019S LAND<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Panmunjom sits inside the 4-kilometer (2.5-mile) -wide Demilitarized Zone, a buffer created at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War. Once an obscure farming village, it was where the armistice that ended the Korean War was signed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No civilians live there, and a cluster of blue huts form a Joint Security Area overseen by North Korea and the U.N. Command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635616781630567186-182520278jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635616781630567186-182520278jpg.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635616781630567186-182520278jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635616781630567186-182520278jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">South Korean soldiers (foreground) look toward the North Korean side (back) as a North Korean soldier (centre R, back) approaches the UN truce village building that sits on the border of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the military border separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea, on September 30, 2013, during the visit of US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. Hagel toured the South-North Korean border on September 30 as he kicked off a trip to key regional allies in the battle to halt Pyongyang&#8217;s nuclear weapons programme. AFP PHOTO \/ POOL \/ JACQUELYN MARTIN        (Photo credit should read JACQUELYN MARTIN\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 248-kilometer (154-mile) -long DMZ is guarded on both sides by mines, razor-wire fences, tank traps and combat-ready troops. But Panmunjom is the only DMZ location where North and South Korean troops stand only several meters (feet) away from each other. North Korean soldiers wearing lapel pins with the portraits of late North Korean leaders use binoculars to monitor the South, while tall South Korean troops wearing aviator sunglasses stand motionless like statues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This unique scene makes it a popular tourist spot, drawing curious visitors to both sides of the village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PAST BLOODSHED<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most notorious incident at Panmunjom happened in the summer of 1976, when two American army officers were killed by ax-wielding North Korean soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. officers had been sent out to trim a 12-meter (40-foot) tree that obstructed the view from a checkpoint. The attack prompted Washington to fly nuclear-capable B-52 bombers toward the DMZ to intimidate North Korea. Then-North Korean leader Kim Il Sung, the late grandfather of current ruler Kim Jong Un, expressed regret over the incident before animosities eased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18009276857258.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-98514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18009276857258.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18009276857258.jpg.jpg?resize=300,198 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18009276857258.jpg.jpg?resize=768,506 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In this Aug. 16, 2013, file photo, South Korean and U.S. soldiers walk by the Camp Bonifas naming information during the 37th Barrett-Bonifas memorial ceremony at the Camp Bonifas near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War. Two U.S. Army officers, Capt. Arthur Bonifas and Lt. Mark T. Barrett, were killed by axe-wielding North Korean border guards at the truce village of Panmunjom on Aug. 18, 1976. (Lee Jin-man\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1984, North Korean and U.N. Command soldiers traded gunfire after a Soviet citizen defected by sprinting to the South Korean sector of the truce village. The incident left three North Korean soldiers and one South Korean soldier dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rival Koreas have had similar violent confrontations along other parts of the DMZ in the past. No deadly clashes have occurred in recent years, but a 2015 land mine blast that maimed two South Korean soldiers pushed the Koreas to the brink of an armed conflict. South Korea blames North Korea for the explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VENUE FOR TALKS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Military officials from North Korea and the U.N. Command used to meet at Panmunjom to oversee the armistice. In recent years, it has been used for occasional talks between the two Koreas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tuesday\u2019s talks were held at Peace House, a Seoul-run conference hall in the southern half of the village. The facility has equipment that can feed real-time closed-circuit TV footage of the talks to South Korean leaders in Seoul. It also allows North Korean leaders in Pyongyang to listen to the talks, according to South Korean officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"659\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18009059695837.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18009059695837.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18009059695837.jpg.jpg?resize=300,193 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18009059695837.jpg.jpg?resize=768,494 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The head of North Korean delegation Ri Son Gwon, center, arrives at the South side for the meeting with South Korea at the Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone in Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. (Korea Pool\/Yonhap via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North Korea operates another conference room, called \u201cPanmungak,\u201d on the northern side of Panmunjom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before Tuesday\u2019s meeting, the most recent high-profile gathering in Panmunjom was in August 2015, when negotiators for the rivals met for nearly 40 hours and reached a deal that allowed them to pull back from a military standoff triggered by the land mine explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. PRESIDENTIAL VISITS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. presidents and other top officials have often traveled to Panmunjom and other areas of the DMZ at times of heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula. They have peered through binoculars across the border and vowed to boost the U.S. military alliance with South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1993, then-President Bill Clinton visited Panmunjom when the North Korean nuclear crisis first flared. In 2002, President George W. Bush visited the DMZ a few weeks after he labeled North Korea part of an \u201caxis of evil.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"720\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18009279121019.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-98519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18009279121019.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18009279121019.jpg.jpg?resize=300,211 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18009279121019.jpg.jpg?resize=768,540 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In this Feb. 20, 2002, file photo, then-U.S. President George W. Bush, right, gazes out at North Korea from Observation Point Ouellette  in the Demilitarized Zone, the tense military border between the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea. Bush visited the DMZ a few weeks after he labeled North Korea part of an &#8220;axis of evil.&#8221; (J. Scott Applewhite\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2012, ahead of a planned North Korean long-range rocket launch, President Barack Obama visited a front-line U.S. military camp just south of the DMZ and told American troops they are protectors of \u201cfreedom\u2019s frontier.\u201d Obama\u2019s trip came days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited Panmunjom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In November 2017, President Donald Trump planned to visit the DMZ to underscore his stance against North Korea\u2019s nuclear program when he came to South Korea as part of an Asian tour, but his plans were thwarted by heavy fog that prevented his helicopter from landing at the border area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two Koreas\u2019 rare high-profile talks Tuesday took place at the jointly controlled area inside the world\u2019s most heavily fortified border 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