Military Demarcation Line

English

Proper noun

the Military Demarcation Line

  1. A line forming the boundary separating North Korea and South Korea.
    • 1983 July 29 [1983 July 28], “The People Yearn for Reunification [人民渴望统一]”, in Daily Report: China[1], volume I, number 147, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing RENMIN RIBAO p 6 (Archived), translation of original by Zhou Bizhong [周必忠] (in Chinese), →ISSN, →OCLC, page D 3[2]:
      In the city of Jiangyuanaogao[sic – meaning Gaocheng County, Jiangyuan Province or Kosong County, Kangwon Province (from Jiangyuan Dao Gaocheng Jun)] [3068 0626 6670 7559], located at the foot of the Jingang [6855 9474[sic – meaning 0474]] Mountains not far from the northern border of the military demarcation line, was the Sanripu [0005 2480 3184] cooperative farm.
      在江原道高城郡内金刚山麓,离军事分界线北侧不远,有个三日浦合作农场。
    • 2017 July 17, “South Korean President Moon Jae-In calls for rare talks with North”, in DW News[3], archived from the original on 17 July 2017, News‎[4]:
      South Korea's defense ministry called Monday for formal talks with its northern neighbor to be held on July 21 at Tongilgak, a North Korean building in the border town of Panmunjom where prior inter-Korea talks have been held.
      "We make the proposal for a meeting... aimed at stopping all hostile activities that escalate military tension along the land border" that is also the Military Demarcation Line between the long-hostile neighbors, the ministry announced in a statement.
    • 2017 November 24, Marwa Eltagouri, “What we’ve learned about the North Korean soldier whose daring escape was caught on video”, in The Washington Post[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 November 2017, WorldViews‎[6]:
      Closed-circuit television footage released by the U.S. military shows Oh driving a jeeplike vehicle southward before it got stuck in a ditch yards away from the Military Demarcation Line that has formed the border between North Korea and South Korea since the end of the Korean War.
    • 2018 April 26, Megan Specia, Tim Wallace, “Inside the Border Village Hosting North and South Korea’s Summit”, in The New York Times[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 April 2018, Asia Pacific‎[8]:
      Panmunjom is sliced in two by the Military Demarcation Line. The summit meeting site in Panmunjom, the Peace House, is technically on the South Korean side of the line.