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The danger is still there, and to acquaint overly-optimistic tourists about this potentially volatile situation, the Korean government and the United Nations representatives have sanctioned one of the the world's most unusual tourist outings. This unique visitor attraction is a day trip to Panmunjeom, the site of a small farming village which was obliterated during the Korean War. Panmunjeom (accessible only through an organized tour) is the historic site on Korea's 38th parallel where American and South Korean representatives of a special United Nations Military Armistice Commission have been holding periodic talks with North Korean and Chinese negotiators. Their goal: to mutually supervise a ceasefire truce that was signed here on July 27, 1953. That truce agreement formally divided Korea into North and South political sectors and put an uneasy end to the bloody Korean War.

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