Last weekend we went to the DMZ. It's a little odd to go to a place on a tour that millions of people are trying to get out of. Screw Disneyland, for your next vacation take your kids to the DMZ. We went with the USO so we were accompanied by American soldiers. While at the DMZ we were told not to point or wave as we were being video taped and the USO doesn't want us to give North Korea any footage for propaganda purposes. The big grey building behind Kat is on the North Korean side and the small blue buildings sit right on the border.
After seeing the actual DMZ, we viewed a North Korean tunnel designed to infiltrate South Korea and then were treated to some propaganda of our own. We watched a short movie that essentially tried to sell the DMZ as a place of hope and unification. It was overdone and I really didn't see the point in it. If the DMZ is really a hopefully place then why is it the most militarized border in the world? Still, it's always fun just to watch propaganda all the same.
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