September 1, 2005

Today we drove up near the DMZ to visit some Koreans that work in our unit. On the way up there we passed this cool looking restaurant. They took a ship, added a bunch of windows and made it a restaurant. Pretty cool.

We had to go through this checkpoint in the middle of a bridge to get the the North/ South Korean border.

After visiting with the Koreans we drove down the road a ways to the DMZ (DeMilitarized Zone). It's the border that separate the two Koreas.

Ah yes, the stupid american degrading another wonderful Korean statue.

Inside the circle of this monument is North Korea on one side and South Korea on the other, and the people are attemping to put the circle together.

We took a tour of the 3rd tunnel while we were there. The 3rd tunnel was dug by North Korea in hopes of sneaking in South Korea. South Korea happened to discover the tunnel by accident when they were blasting near the area. Today it's a tourism attraction that allows you to walk down a portion of the tunnel to the North/Suth line. And there is actually a line that divides the two sides too.

SGT Arman and Chaplain Horovitz had an arguement who could do the most push-ups, but the Chaplain cheated on his. Of course we didn't tell him that none of them counted until after bhe already did 80 of them.

After that we drove up to a look out area at a Korean Army base. This photo is of North Korea. It's hard to see, but you can see the large North Korean flag in the far distance. I was told that Soldier of Fortune magazine has offered $1,000,000 to anyone who cna steal the flag. I don't think it would ever happen. The whole place is guarded 24/7 and the flag is about 150 feet in the air. I probably wieghs over 100 pounds too it's so huge. So I think it's safe to say that it will never go anywhere.