SOUTH KOREA-BRITAIN/DMZ British Foreign Secretary visits DMZ dividing North and South Korea

Record ID: 144291

  • Title: SOUTH KOREA-BRITAIN/DMZ British Foreign Secretary visits DMZ dividing North and South Korea
  • Date: 11th August 2015
  • Summary: PANMUNJOM, DEMILITARIZED ZONE, SOUTH KOREA (AUGUST 11, 2015) (REUTERS) ****WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** EXTERIOR OF PANMUNJOM AND SOUTH KOREAN SOLDIERS STANDING BESIDE TRUCE VILLAGE BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY, PHILIP HAMMOND, TAKING PHOTOS HAMMOND AND HIS AIDES WALKING NORTH KOREAN SOLDIER TAKING PHOTO VARIOUS OF HAMMOND LOOKING AROUND SOUTH KOREAN SOLDIER STANDING NORTH KOREAN SOLDIERS STANDING DELEGATION ENTERING MEETING ROOM VARIOUS OF HAMMOND LOOKING AROUND MEETING ROOM SOUTH KOREAN SOLDIERS STANDING OUTSIDE OF MEETING ROOM VARIOUS OF TOURISTS ON NORTH KOREAN SIDE VARIOUS OF HAMMOND POSING FOR PHOTO
  • Embargoed: 26th August 2015 13:00
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  • Topics: General
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  • Story Text: British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond visited the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), dividing North and South Korea on Tuesday (August 11).
    Hammond arrived in Seoul on Monday (August 10) for his two-day visit and met South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se.
    Hammond visited the truce village of Panmunjom at the DMZ, where North and South Korean soldiers faced each other in silence. North Korean guards looked over the southern side and tourists from the northern side looked over the southern side in curiosity.
    North and South Korea are still technically at war since the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce without a peace treaty.
    Hammond looked around a room used for meetings between North Korea and the United Nations (U.N.) side at Panmunjom.
    The DMZ is a 4-km (2.5-mile) wide buffer fortified with landmines and barbed wire stretching across the Korean peninsula, with more than a million soldiers and heavy military equipment deployed on both sides.
    Hammond said Britain remains crucially interested in peace and stability in Asia and the situation with DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) at a news conference on Monday.
    Hammond was also scheduled to meet South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday.
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