This past weekend at Imjingak, an area within the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) popular with tourists, business appeared down only slightly.
Mr. Obama will also visit the inter-Korean border known as the demilitarized zone, or DMZ, which every president has done since Ronald Reagan.
Israeli and Egyptian authorities coordinated to allow the helicopter gunships and heavy machinery into the demilitarized zone in accord with the Camp David agreement signed in 1979.
On the Korean peninsula's east coast, hundreds of South Koreans were peacefully disembarking from their cruise ship to admire Diamond Mountain, just across the Demilitarized Zone in North Korea.
Cherchez la femme: in 1962, James Joseph Dresnok, an American soldier stationed on the South Korea side of the demilitarized zone, snuck away from guard duty to visit a woman.
The publisher describes the novel as the coming-of-age story of a gifted young man whose search for meaning leads him to New York, England, Paris and a mission patrolling the demilitarized zone in Korea.
"I remember when only a handful of people came, " says Tran Hong Chi, a guide for the somewhat grisly tours into the Demilitarized Zone or DMZ, a heavily bombed and severely poisoned territory that served as the boundary between north and south Vietnam.
On Tuesday, Roh became the first South Korean leader to walk across the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone between the two countries.
The deal also set up a demilitarized zone along the two countries' border where the militaries of Sudan and South Sudan and other armed groups are not allowed.
The creation of a demilitarized zone has met with consistent objections from the Colombian government.
Since the FARC insists on the creation of a demilitarized zone, prior to any negotiations, the government has picked up the Venezuelan offer to mediate the negotiations.
Though Israel so far has not done so, it must insist that if it is to give up the defensive asset of the Golan Heights, there must be not only a demilitarized zone on the Golan, but also a reduction of Syria's armed forces and missiles, and a dismantling of its arsenal of chemical warfare.
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The Korean Peninsula has been divided by a 4-kilometer-wide (2.5-mile-wide) Demilitarized Zone since the Korean War ended with an armistice in 1953.
In addition to restarting oil exports from South Sudan, the two presidents agreed on a demilitarized zone and principles of border demarcation.
In addition to a deal to restart oil exports from South Sudan, the two presidents agreed on a demilitarized zone and principles of border demarcation.
Some seven years ago, when the FARC took most of the current hostages and controlled an estimated 40 % of the country's territory, there already was a demilitarized zone.
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