{"id":65220,"date":"2024-06-27T13:37:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T04:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/27\/north-south-korea-dmz-balloons-tensions"},"modified":"2024-06-27T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T04:37:08","slug":"the-scariest-place-on-earth-inside-the-dmz-as-tensions-between-north-and-south-korea-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65220","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The scariest place on earth\u2019: inside the DMZ as tensions between North and South Korea rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Balloon wars and troop incursions have led to a rise in uncertainty along the militarised buffer and left international observers nervous<\/p>\n<p>Just a stone\u2019s throw from North Korea, farmer Park Se-un tends to his crops under the watchful eye of the South Korean military. In the distance, past the bushes and fields strewn with landmines, he can see North Korean soldiers on patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Park\u2019s village of Daeseong-dong is the only inhabited area in the south of Korea\u2019s demilitarised zone (DMZ), located just 365 metres from North Korea at its closest point. Born and raised inside this zone, Park is used to the political tensions that shape his everyday life.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/27\/north-south-korea-dmz-balloons-tensions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balloon wars and troop incursions have led to a rise in uncertainty along the militarised buffer and left international observers nervousJust a stone\u2019s throw from North Korea, farmer Park Se-un tends to his crops under the watchful eye of the South Kor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4319,"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-65220","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\/65220","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\/4319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65221,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65220\/revisions\/65221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}