Life on the line.(KOREA)

From: Geographical | Date: August 1, 2005 | Copyright information

Since George W Bush included North Korea in his 'axis of evil', the stand-off between the North and South has returned to the spotlight, not least because of the North's nuclear weapons programme. The origins of the division of the Korean peninsula lie in the end of the Second World War and the subsequent Korean War, when the UN sent troops to repel an invasion from the North. Hostilities were suspended in 1953, since when both sides have been separated by a demilitarised zone that extends almost 250 kilometres across the peninsula and 2,000 metres either side of a demarcation ...

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