The third tunnel is one of four digging attempts by the North Koreans to dig their way into Seoul and invade. Unbelievable, right? Scary to think they actually tried it four times! They are nothing if not persistent.
The DMZ theater showed a docudrama of a little girl wandering among the barb wire and mine strewn dmz who suddenly finds a beautiful butterfly that changes the whole area into a park of love and peace. Maybe they can export that butterfly to Sudan.
The museum had great exhibits of people who had reunions with their relatives from the north and loads of information about the attempts at unification.
52 Kilometers from Seoul. That’s how close they came! In their defense they claimed that the tunnel was a coal mine. They even hastily painted it black and scrubbed on some coal on their backwards retreat North. Doesn’t that sound like a Loony Tunes scheme? Next they were probably going to say they were helping Bugs Bunny get to Alburqurque.
No photography was allowed inside the actual tunnel, but rest assured my pose of giving thanks at having returned from that bottomless pit is not faked in the slighest. And trust me you will need that hard hat if you stand any taller than five feet, because you will be ducking and crouching and crawling your way through that blasted tunnel. In the end you are greeted with an iron door preventing you from going any further into what must be enemy territory.
The Third Tunnel definitely needs a Wendy’s or Burger King at the bottom to offer refreshments.
