Category: DMZ

Tweet of the Day: Italian President Visits the JSA

| November 10, 2023

Tweet of the Day: Australian Soldiers on the DMZ

| July 18, 2023

Tweet of the Day: Three Men Stopped After Trying to Cross DMZ on Harley Davidsons

| June 27, 2023
https://twitter.com/dongyonews/status/1673234235896008708

Tweet of the Day: Warning Panels on the DMZ

| June 20, 2023

Tweet of the Day: DMZ Road and Railway Inspections

| March 9, 2023

North Korean Soldiers Wear Hazmat Suits When Outside at Panmunjom

| February 13, 2023

Many people complain about wearing mask outdoors, imagine having to wear an entire hazmat suit:

South Korean soldiers stationed on the southern side of the Joint Security Area on Feb. 7, 2023. Korea Times photo by Jack Lau

North Korean troops have become somewhat of a rare sight. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, North Korean soldiers have avoided showing themselves in public to ward off the disease, at the cost of suspending in-person talks with the U.N. Command about upholding the armistice.

“They no longer meet with us face to face,” said Lt. Col. Griff Hofman of the U.N. Command Military Armistice Commission behind the sky-blue conference huts at the Joint Security Area in Panmunjom managed by the commission.

“It’s all done via the hotline, and they generally stay in Panmungak,” he said, referring to the main building on the North Korean side of the area that is also known as the Phanmun Pavilion. “If North Korean troops needed to go outdoors, they wore hazmat suits.”

Korea Times

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Picture of the Day: ROK Soldiers on Guard Duty at Panmunjom

| February 10, 2023
Guards at truce village
Guards at truce village
South Korean soldiers are on guard on the southern side of the inter-Korean truce village of Panmunjom in Paju, 30 kilometers north of Seoul, on Feb. 7, 2023. (Yonhap)

Tweet of the Day: Elementary School Graduation on the DMZ

| January 6, 2023

Tweet of the Day: Transportation Corridors Along the DMZ Remain Open

| October 27, 2022
https://twitter.com/UN_Command/status/1585214743027257345

Tweet of the Day: Canadian Foreign Minister Visits the DMZ

| October 11, 2022
https://twitter.com/UN_Command/status/1578973897952997377