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Panmunjom's mystique a tourist draw
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PANMUNJOM, Korea--Don't smile at the communist guards, never point
toward the watch towers and forget about wearing blue jeans.
Even for the droves of tourists, strict Cold War rules prevail
along the immaculately groomed paths of Panmunjom, the museumlike
neutral "village" between the divided Koreas where officials signed
an armistice that ended the 1950-1953 Korean War.
Now that the United States has opened the door for talks with
North Korea over the communist country's nuclear weapons program, the
no man's land border outpost once again is a reminder of how prickly
talks with the North can ...
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