A DMZ-themed motel room designed by the artist Omyo Cho is decorated with barbed wire. “If anything, I can now claim to have spent a night at the farthest north campsite in South Korea,” said ...

A no-go area for citizens on both sides of the divide, the heavily fortified DMZ today remains a place of barbed wire and landmines. Yet for many artists, it is also a place of mystery— “an ...

The DMZ has become a refuge for plants and animals. A total of 6,168 species call the area home, according to South Korea’s National Institute of Ecology , including 102 of Korea’s 267 ...

Panmunjom is in the demilitarized zone, or DMZ, a 2.5-mile-wide strip of land that’s strewn with mines and lined with barbed wire. The DMZ is a buffer between the Koreas, which technically are ...

- Inside the DMZ is the Joint Security Area (JSA). The so-called peace village of Panmunjom, where the armistice was signed in 1953, is located in the 800-metre-wide and 400-metre-long JSA zone.