DMZ

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DMZ is the heavily fortified buffer zone separating North and South Korea, established after the Korean War to reduce military tensions between the two countries.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
DMZ canonical 6
Safe Demilitarized Border Zone 1

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf buffer zone
demilitarized zone
international border
borderRegionOf Gangwon Province
Gyeonggi Province
Kangwon Province
North Hwanghae Province
Ryanggang Province
South Hamgyong Province
South Hwanghae Province
containsCheckpoint Panmunjom
controlledBy North Korea
South Korea
countryBorderBetween North Korea
South Korea
crossedBy Military Demarcation Line
crossingPoint Dora Observatory
Dorasan Station
establishedAfter Korean War
establishedBy Korean Armistice Agreement
establishedYear 1953
governedByAgreement Korean Armistice Agreement
habitatFor endangered species
hasEcologicalStatus de facto nature reserve
hasFeature barbed wire fences
guard posts
land mines
observation towers
hasSubregion Joint Security Area
isOneOf most heavily fortified borders in the world
languageUsed English
Korean
length about 250 kilometers
locatedInContinent Asia
locatedOnPeninsula Korean Peninsula
monitoredBy United Nations Command
nearCity Pyongyang
Seoul
notStatus formal peace treaty
purpose reduce military tensions between North Korea and South Korea
serve as buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea
shortName DMZ
status ceasefire line
symbolOf Cold War tensions
division of Korea
tourism military tourism destination
visitedBy foreign tourists
heads of state
width about 4 kilometers

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Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sudan–South Sudan relations securityMechanism Safe Demilitarized Border Zone
linked to: DMZ
Korean Demilitarized Zone shortName DMZ
subject linked to: DMZ
Con Thien locatedNear DMZ
Cisco Expressway-E deploymentRole DMZ
subject linked to: Cisco Expressway