{"id":59583,"date":"2023-11-02T08:42:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T23:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/02\/more-to-this-place-than-barbed-wire-south-korea-reimagines-its-dmz-as-a-path-towards-peace"},"modified":"2023-11-02T08:42:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T23:42:29","slug":"more-to-this-place-than-barbed-wire-south-korea-reimagines-its-dmz-as-a-path-towards-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59583","title":{"rendered":"\u2018More to this place than barbed wire\u2019: South Korea reimagines its DMZ as a path towards peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At times an easy Sunday walk, at others a tense hike amid military practice targets, this peace trail gives firsthand experience of a place still divided by war<\/p>\n<p>A three-hour drive east from the bustling streets of Seoul, a checkpoint marks the beginning of a journey to one of the most heavily militarised borders in the world. The military police scrutinise personal identification against a pre-approved list before granting passage.<\/p>\n<p>It is here, in Goseong county, in a restricted section alongside the demilitarised zone (DMZ) on the border with North Korea, that South Korea hopes to promote a literal path to peace.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/02\/more-to-this-place-than-barbed-wire-south-korea-reimagines-its-dmz-as-a-path-towards-peace\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At times an easy Sunday walk, at others a tense hike amid military practice targets, this peace trail gives firsthand experience of a place still divided by warA three-hour drive east from the bustling streets of Seoul, a checkpoint marks the beginning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4025,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4025"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59584,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59583\/revisions\/59584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}