War, peace and children in the DMZ
Mar 24, 2013
A handful of tour buses carrying foreign diplomats, the Korean press corps and students slowly lumbered across Unification Bridge into the demilitarized zone carefully negotiating barricades assembled halfway along the bridge’s length.The schoolchildren were fidgety and chattering excitedly, jumping out of their seats to peer out of the bus windows at sights they scarcely could have seen before ― armored vehicles, heavily armed checkpoints and barbed wire strewn helter-skelter, the legacy of a t