This is as close as we ever got to North Korea. Panmunjeom is the heavily-touristed United Nations outpost located at the DMZ, the 2km-wide no-access zone separating North and South Korea. In the distance can be made out the Norths propaganda town, a farce of a city and collection of false building facades. Like some abandoned movie set, the propaganda town sits idle while pro-communist North Korea slogans are blurted out the huge speakers hanging off the contender for the worlds highest flag pole. \r\nOnly one other time did we get so close to the North. That was while overnighting it in Seoraksan National Park. Not far from our mountain hut, we could see the lights of military outposts and wandering soldiers in the hills to our north. \r\nThese days, re-unification is high on many Koreans list of priorities. South Korea, Panmunjeon - 20-Dec-01