ကမၻာ့စိတ္ပ်က္ဖြယ္အေကာင္းဆံုး နယ္စပ္ (ေတာင္-ေျမာက္ ကိုရီးယား)

ကမၻာ့စိတ္ပ်က္ဖြယ္ အေကာင္းဆံုး နယ္စပ္ ကေတာ့ ေတာင္ကိုရီးယား နဲ႔ ေျမာက္ကိုရီးယား နယ္စပ္ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ 
 
 

ပံုမွာျပသထားတာကေတာ့ Joint Security Area မွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ တစ္ဖက္နဲ႔တစ္ဖက္ နယ္စပ္ကုိခြလို႔ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးဆိုင္ရာေဆြးေႏြးဖို႔အတြက္ တည္ေဆာက္ထားတဲ့ အေဆာက္အအံုမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အေဆာက္အအံု မွာေတာ့မွာ သူ႔ဘက္ကိုယ့္ဘက္ ထပ္ခြဲထားပါေသးတယ္။

ေတာင္ကုိရီးယားတစ္ဖက္ျခမ္းမွာ တံခါးဖြင့္မယ္ဆုိရင္ပံုမွာ ျမင္ေတြ႔ရ တဲ့အတိုင္း ေနာက္မွာ တစ္ေယာက္က လက္နဲ႔ဆြဲထားရပါတယ္။ အေၾကာင္းကေတာ့ ဖြင့္တဲ့အခါ ဟုိဘက္က ဆြဲထည့္ျပီး ရန္ျပဳမွာစိုးလို႔ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ တစ္ဖက္နယ္ေျမကိုေရာက္သြားရင္ ဘယ္သူမွ ကယ္လို႔မရေတာ့ပါဘူး။ နယ္ေျမကို ေျခတစ္လွမ္းကြ်ံတာနဲ႔ ကြ်ံတဲ့ ေျခေထာက္ကို ျဖတ္ဖို႔ေလာက္ထိေတာင္ ႏွစ္ဖက္လံုးက စည္းကမ္းမ်ား တင္းၾကပ္ထားပါတယ္။


ေျမာက္ကိုရီးယားဘက္က တံခါးဖြင့္ရင္လည္း ေတာင္ကိုရီးယားလိုပဲ တစ္ေယာက္လည္း တစ္ေယာက္ဆြဲလို႔ အဆင့္ဆင့္ခံပါတယ္။ ဒါက အေဆာက္အအံုထဲမွာပါ။ အေဆာက္အအံုအျပင္မွာဆုိရင္လည္း တစ္ေယာက္နဲ႔တစ္ေယာက္ ၁ ေပဝန္းက်င္မွ အကြာေလာက္သာ ျခားျပီး ရပ္ေနၾကပါတယ္။

အတြင္းေကာ အျပင္မွာပါ ကမၻာမွာ မရွိဖူးေသးတဲ့ နယ္စပ္စည္းမ်ဥ္း စည္းကမ္း မ်ား ခ်မွတ္ထားျပီး တစ္ဖက္နဲ႔တစ္ဖက္ ရန္လိုတဲ့ အၾကည့္မ်ားနဲ႔ ကင္းေစာင့္ေနၾကပါတယ္။ အားလံုးက အသင့္ အေနအထားပါပဲ။ တစ္ဖက္ဆီမွာလည္း အနည္းဆံုး စစ္ေသားေထာင္ခ်ီ ရွိေနျပီး အေရးၾကီး အေျခအေနဆုိရင္ ေသာင္းခ်ီ၊ သိန္းခ်ီေတာင္ ရွိပါတယ္။ ေတာင္ကိုရီးယား စခန္းဘက္ကမွာ အေမရိကန္ စစ္သားမ်ားလည္း ရွိေနပါတယ္။

Joint Security Area မွာရွိတဲ့ ေဆြးေႏြးခန္းတစ္ခုဆုိ ရင္ ေတာင္ ေကာ ေျမာက္ကိုရီးယားပါ ပိုင္ဆိုင္ ပါတယ္။ ေတာင္ နဲ႔ ေျမာက္ၾကားမွာ ေဘးမဲ့ ေတာ တစ္ခုလည္း ထားရွိပါတယ္။ ယင္းေတာထဲမွာလည္း လွုပ္လွုပ္ရွားရွား တစ္ေကာင္ေကာင္ ေတြ႔ ရင္ ေတာင္ေရာ၊ ေျမာက္ဘက္က စစ္သားမ်ားက လက္နက္မ်ိဳးစံုနဲ႔ ပစ္ခတ္ပါတယ္။


 

At the 38th parallel lies the de-militarized zone (DMZ), with troops stationed along both sides in case the other decides to attack.

 

And attacks have happened many times. North Korean soldiers killed two US Army officers here in 1976 at "The Bridge of No Return" — named because captured NK prisoners hardly ever wished to go back home.

   

The North and South both have towns inside the DMZ area.

  

And when the South raised a big 323-foot-tall flag pole with their flag waving ...

  

... the North responded with a taller one, at 525 feet.

  

This somewhat absurd feud over who had the taller flag became known as 'The Flagpole War.'

  

And although the South actually has people inside its town, the North's is a "propaganda village" with empty buildings in a feeble attempt to gain defectors from the South.

   

But probably the most heated part of the border is at the Joint Security Area.

  

This is where soldiers of the North and South stand mere feet from each other in a more than 60-year staring contest.

  

Just a small slab of concrete separates dictatorship from democracy.

  

With US soldiers backing them up ...

  

... all three of the best South Korean guards look into the North ...

  

... as 3 North Korean soldiers stand opposite. Rumor is that they face each other in case one decides to run into the South. The one facing the camera likely keeps anyone else from heading south.

  

There's plenty of pageantry and marching when guards are relieved, to show the other Army 'how much better their side is.'

  

But sometimes messages need to be passed. Although they have an old crank phone, the North doesn't always respond.

  

Even trying to send word to repatriate bodies of North Korean soldiers back to their home is only passed through a megaphone.

  

And when soldiers of the South go inside, the North always keeps a watchful eye.

  

But if they need to open the door into the North, they hold hands to make sure they're not pulled in.

  

Unity between the two countries seems unlikely any time soon, as neither wishes to budge.

 http://www.businessinsider.com/north-and-south-korea-dmz-border-is-a-warzone-2013-2?op=1