One can easily locate Korea on a world map or globe by following 127º east meridian north ... It is also quite close to an important geopolitical feature called “the demilitarized zone,” or DMZ. The ...

A North Korean soldier defected to the South by crossing the heavily protected Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separating the two sides. This is the fourth defection by a North Korean soldier via the DMZ ...

North Korea is building sections of what appears ... In drawing the precise northern boundary of the DMZ in the map above, we have adopted the BBC’s research on border mapping.

Starbucks has just opened a coffee shop on an observation tower near one of the world's most heavily armed borders: the ...

Despite its confusing name, the Korean Demilitarized Zone on the border ... Violent altercations in the DMZ, some in volving U.S. military members, have resulted in hundreds of deaths since ...

Mentions of the DMZ evoke thoughts of North Korean missile tests, high-level summit meetings, barbed wire fences, and stoic army personnel. However, the DMZ simultaneously exists as a place of rich ...