The Last Iron Curtain Theater in the World
Tomorrow I’m going to Seoul (서얼). Among other things, I’ll visit the last front of the cold war. The 38th parallel. The heaviest guarded border in the world. The DMZ. Between the two sides, there are effectively one million troops. I think we get to see one of the huge tunnels that North Korea dug to invade Seoul back in the 1970’s. They claimed it was for coal mining and even painted the walls with black paint, but they weren’t fooling anyone. It was large enough to deploy an entire division in an hour.
Apparently I’m not allowed to wear any graphic tees or shorts or open toed shoes. It is an ideological battlefield after all.
2 comments:
i loved looking at the pictures of your school! it looks like a lot of fun. much better than the gray and beige walls here. i especially like the apple shaped windows.
how was your trip? post pictures soon, friend.
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