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DMZ Tourists at Observation Post Dora

By Michael Sullivan
Published October 14, 2006 at 5:00 AM PDT
This story was published more than 18 years ago.
A worker washes a window on the North Korean side of the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea, as a guard stands by and a North Korean officer peers through the glass with binoculars (see enlargement).
A worker washes a window on the North Korean side of the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea, as a guard stands by and a North Korean officer peers through the glass with binoculars (see enlargement).

The most heavily fortified strip of land in the world is the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. In the DMZ, the potential for war has remained tangible for over 50 years. Yet it's also a popular tourist destination.

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Michael Sullivan
Michael Sullivan is NPR's Senior Asia Correspondent. He moved to Hanoi to open NPR's Southeast Asia Bureau in 2003. Before that, he spent six years as NPR's South Asia correspondent based in but seldom seen in New Delhi.
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