mercredi 21 décembre 2011

North Korean border

I experienced something exciting : going to the North Korean border with South Korea by a snowing day, two days after the announcement of the North Korea's dictator death Kim Jong-il and the enhancement of South Korean's and American's army alertness.
It is really hard to take photos there, it's almost forbidden in every single interesting place... Indeed, one photo camera pointed on North Korean border could be represented as a weapon, and the South Korean part doesn't want to give the enemy confidential informations as well. Moreover, the time allocated to the visit of each place was short. The journalists are forbidden there, except if they get a special admission right. By the way, one South Korean came to me and asked me if I belonged to the journalist staff... Anyway, I took some photos when I could... The most exciting moment was the JSA, the jointure point between two Korea, indeed, after I entered in a conference room, I enjoyed staying some precious minutes on the other side of the border : North Korea!
















2 commentaires:

  1. wow Toy, I am very impressed by all the photo you took at the DMZ & JSA

    Cause it is forbidden for Korean citizen to enter JSA area, I always had wondered how it looked.. : )

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  2. The DMZ is not really interesting, however the JSA is truly exciting, especially when you see North Korean premises or even when you have a look at the soldiers from both sides, they look at each other without moving, waiting, waiting... By the way, who are you deer anonymous?

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