[Lee Kyong-hee] Rethinking the DMZ: A no man’s land of paradoxes

Ten years ago, I had an opportunity to travel along the Demilitarized Zone — more precisely, along its southern limit line — all the way from Goseong, Gangwon Province, at the eastern end to Gyodong Island in Ganghwa County, Incheon. I was part of a field-trip team of writers, photographers and editorial staff for a magazine aimed at English-speaking readers overseas. We visited places of major historical and humanitarian interest and frontline observatories along the way. I still vividly rememb