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Massive loudspeakers mounted on several of the buildings deliver DPRK propaganda broadcasts directed towards the South. Originally, the content extolled the North's virtues in great detail and urged disgruntled soldiers and farmers simply to walk across the border to be received as brothers. As its
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would be the most distinguishing features when viewed from across the border. Scrutiny with modern telescopic lenses, however, has led to the conclusion that the buildings are concrete shells lacking window glass or even interior rooms, with building lights turned on and off at set times and empty
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The North Korean government responded by building an even taller one, the Panmunjom flagpole, at 160 m (525 ft) with a 270 kg (595 lb) flag of North Korea in Kijŏng-dong, 1.2 km (0.7 mi) across the demarcation line from South Korea
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The village features a number of brightly painted, poured-concrete multi-story buildings and apartments, many apparently wired for electricity. The town was oriented so that the bright blue roofs and multi-colored sides of the buildings next to the massive
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for up to 20 hours a day. For a period from 2004 to 2016, both North and South agreed to end their loudspeaker broadcasts at each other. The broadcasts resumed after escalating tensions as a result of the
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and to house the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) soldiers manning the network of artillery positions, fortifications and underground marshalling bunkers that surround the border zone.
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value in inducing defections diminished over time, particularly as South Korea caught up with the North economically in the 1960s and 1970s, the content was switched to condemnatory
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Kijong-dong was built specially in the north area of DMZ. Designed to show the superiority of the communist model, it has no residents except soldiers.
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The village is surrounded by extensive cultivated fields, clearly visible to visitors to the North Korean side of the DMZ.
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Kijŏng-dong is one of two villages permitted to remain in the 4 km (2.5 mi) wide DMZ set up under the
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by Pang hwon Ju & Hwang Bong Hyok, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Pyongyang, DPRK. 1991
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in November 2002, when P'anmun-gun was dissolved and its territory divided among Kaesong,
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sidewalks swept by caretakers in an effort to preserve the illusion of activity.
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In the 1980s, the South Korean government built a 100 m (328 ft) tall
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The North Korean government says the village contains a 200-family
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The Panmunjom flagpole, flying the flag of North Korea.
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Kijŏng-dong
The Panmunjom flagpole, flying the flag of North Korea.
Kijong-dong is located in North Korea
37°56′43″N 126°39′20″E / 37.9453°N 126.6556°E / 37.9453; 126.6556
North Korea
Special city
Kaesŏng-T'ŭkpyŏlsi
Ward
P'anmun-guyŏk
Potemkin village
Korean
Hancha
Panmun-guyok
Kaesong Special City
North Korea
Korean Demilitarized Zone
Korean
Hancha

MR
Korean
Hanja
RR
South Korean
1953 armistice
Korean War
Daeseong-dong

flagpole
flag of North Korea

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