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.