Kyle and Lisa Frei Family

We spent today on our tour with the ISO at the North Korea, South Korea border. It was so interesting. It felt a little sketchy when we were taken to the look out point and could see the North Korean tower just across the border with their soldiers staring at us the entire time. We hiked down into the third tunnel. North Korea tried to dig tunnels into Seoul so that they could capture Seoul.

If you look to the left of this North Korean soldier, in the bottom right of the window their is another soldier looking at us through binoculars.

We asked the soldier that guided us what that strangest thing that has happened to him while guiding this tour. He told us that their is a North Korean soldier at this post and every time he sees him the North Korean soldier will shoot his gun into the air. Ha, I was ready to leave.

Sister Kim loves Jack. The Korean language does not have a Z so they call him Jack.

North Korean soldier. He doesn't look to happy that we are there.

South Korea was given a large flag pole after the war. The North Korean's do not like to be out done, so they built the tallest flag pole in the world. They also built this city after the war to show everyone how they live in North Korea. The guides told us that it is just like a Hollywood movie set. Nothing is real. The windows are painted on the houses and nobody lives in them. Ha I have never seen housing like this in South Korea and in the documentaries that I have watched on North Korea the living conditions are pretty poor. 

Us with a soldier from South Korea. Every man in South Korea is required to serve in the military for two years.

The bridge of no return. After the war a deal was made that people could choose where they wanted to be. On the north or on the south. What ever they chose they could never change their minds. 

I wish that we could all get along. :)