North Korea's 160m flag pole

Day 299 - DMZ

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April 27th 2007
One of the highlights of our year away’s original itinerary was paying a visit to North Korea. Much to our disappointment organising the practicalities of this turned out to be impossible, in the main because we wouldn’t be in the UK to go through the visa formalities. So we decided that rather than try and sneak in we’d better just wait and go another time, but for a bit of a look we trave ... read more

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Korea was an independent kingdom under Chinese suzerainty for most of the past millennium. Following its victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan occupied Korea; five years later it formally annexed the entire peninsula. After World War II, a... ... read more