Military Demarcation Line

English

Proper noun

the Military Demarcation Line

  1. A line forming the boundary separating North Korea and South Korea.
    • 2017 July 17, “South Korean President Moon Jae-In calls for rare talks with North”, in DW News‎[1], archived from the original on 17 July 2017, News‎[2]:
      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[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 November 2017, WorldViews‎[4]:
      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[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 April 2018, Asia Pacific‎[6]:
      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.
    • 2023 July 18, “US national crosses into North Korea during border tour”, in France 24‎[7], sourced from United Nations Command 유엔군사령부/유엔사 (@UN_Command), archived from the original on 18 July 2023, Asia / Pacific‎[8]:
      A U.S. National on a JSA orientation tour crossed, without authorization, the Military Demarcation Line into the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). We believe he is currently in DPRK custody and are working with our KPA counterparts to resolve this incident.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Military Demarcation Line.
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