North Korea's Demilitarized Zone(DMT)-Most dangerous border in the world

As North and South Korea show their political solidarity together at the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in 2018, a united Korean women’s team competing as a nation remains one of the most vivid reminders of the gap between the two countries.

Increasing tensions in North Korea have created an area in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that divides South Korea. USA TODAY sent Asian journalist Thomas Maresca to DMZ to explain. The DMZ is the border between North and South Korea, one of the world's most protected areas, a 2.2-meter-wide wide belt, and a 150-mile-long ribbon that separates the peninsula since the end of the Korean War in 1953. It is difficult to cross due to shared security zones and a special buffer area known as Panmunjom Armistice Village, about 35 miles south of Seoul.

The 38th parallel divided the Korean Peninsula in half with the formation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (ROK or South Korea) in 1948 and became an international border and became one of the most exciting regions of the Cold War. The Korea Demilitarized Zone crosses the line evenly, west of the northern end of the line and the eastern end of what has been the border since the Korean War. North Korea and South Korea have been relying on donor countries since the outbreak of war in 1948.

Although no peace treaty has been signed, the war between North and South Korea has been raging for at least 60 years, and the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) border between the two countries serves as a good reminder. Not only are bullets flying over DMZ, but hard-working soldiers cross DMZ more often than anywhere else in the world, and tensions are high. Panmunjom is the eye of the storm. You could be shot for one meter shot and then sent to a North Korean re-learning camp.

Since the 1953 treaty of the armistice, there have been more than 1,000 fracas and 50 or more serious incidents - including one in which a young North Korean soldier strayed from the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the two countries to South Korea. In 1984, a visiting Soviet interpreter from the North crossed the military barrier and drew North Korean troops. The recent North Korean military escalation of heavy artillery has been the third since the armed forces crossed the border in 2007 and 1998. skip DMZ.

This is puzzling, as North Korea is a terrifying, mysterious, and manipulative person who has been playing tourists for tourists on the South Korean side of the DMZ. If you have a chance to stop in North Korea, not to mention the photo, I have proof. The South Korean and American military bases are quiet, otherwise, they are a bit scary.

Guests are taken to the conference room of the Military Commission, which crosses the concrete border. On the North Korean side, the DMZ worked to stop the South from invading North Korea. Korean walls and tank barriers near an armed area can be seen from the North through telescopes, through a series of ropes attached to guns, and a view of the mass deployment of troops.

It stretches for 150 miles [240 km] along the peninsula, from the mouth of the Han River on the west coast south of the North Korean city of Kosong on the east coast. The DMZ also includes areas on both sides of the Armistice Line as they were located at the end of the Korean War (1950-53) which was created to form specific 2 km troops on each side of the Line. Within the DMZ is the village of Panmunjom in the suburb of Panmunjom about five miles [8 km] east of Kaesong, North Korea.

Visitors will be staying at a resort owned by the South Korean organization Hyundai on the North Korean border. Visiting this place is an instructive lesson, if not an emotional one that we should not forget. If you feel like exploring what is considered to be one of the most dangerous frontiers in the world, or if you are looking at one of the most dangerous places in the world, here is how to do it.

In 2008 the spectacle ended when North Korean troops shot dead a South Korean tourist at a resort controlled by South Korean organization Hyundai on the North Korean side after he exited a closed section of the area. Now it bothers me to see how North Korea handles its DMZ side.