韓国

This photo was taken during our visit to South Korea. We took a tour to the 'Demilitarised Zone' which is a stretch of land controlled by the United Nations separating North and South Korea, who are still technically at war. In this current political state, no Koreans are allowed to travel across the border and consequently this tour is only available to people holding a non-Korean passport, so we took the opportunity to visit as we thought not many people would be able to say that they'd seen over the border into North Korea.

When we got to the U.N. base we were warned not to make any gestures to the guards standing across the border so as not to provoke them into opening fire on us, and
each had to sign a disconcerting document absolving the U.N. of any blame in the event of our death!!

I was under the impression we would only be able to see into North Korea, but we managed to go one better - we were unexpectedly allowed to enter a room used for peace talks, half of which was in South Korea and the other half in North Korea - so in the above photo, I am standing in North Korea while Tomoko is in South Korea! Neat!