South Korea's Defense Ministry announced plans to shrink the Civilian Control Line (CCL) near the Demilitarized Zone, allowing farmers and residents more access to land starting in 2027. The move aims to balance security needs with regional development and ease local inconveniences.
ํ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ชฉ์ฌ 20์ฌ๋ช ์ด 17์ผ๋ถํฐ 25์ผ๊น์ง ์ฒ ์์์ ๊ณ ์ฑ๊น์ง DMZ ํํ์ ๊ธธ 250์ฌใ๋ฅผ ๊ฑธ์ผ๋ฉฐ ์ธ๊ณ ์ ์ ์ข ์์ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๋ ํ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ตํ๋ค. ์ด๋ค์ '์นดํ'(KAPAยทKorea America Peace Again) ์ด๋์ ์ ๊ฐํ๋ฉฐ ๊ตํ์ ํํ ์ค์ฒ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๋ชจ์ํ๋ค.
Thousands gathered for the DMZ Peace Train Music Festival near the Korean demilitarized zone, an area known for conflict, to sing about peace. The event, in its seventh year, aims to foster peaceful exchanges between North and South Korea.
๋ฌธํ์ฒด์ก๊ด๊ด๋ถ์ ํ๊ตญ๊ด๊ด๊ณต์ฌ๋ ์ค๋ 12์ผ ๊ฐ์ ์๊ตฌ๊ตฐ DMZ ํํ์ ๊ธธ 26์ฝ์ค์์ 'DMZ ํํ์ ๊ธธ ๊ฑท๊ธฐ' ํ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ตํ๋ค. ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ด ๋ํํ๋ฉฐ ์ฐธ๊ฐ๋น๋ ๋ฌด๋ฃ๋ค.
๊ตญ๋ฆฝ์๋ชฉ์์ DMZ ์์์๋ฌผ์ ๊ฐ์ 10์ฃผ๋ ์ ๋ง์ ๋ฐฑ๋์ฐ๋ก์ฅ, ํฉ์ฐ์ฐจ ๋ฑ ๋ถํ ์์์๋ฌผ 89์ข ์ ์ ์ํ๋ '๋ถํ์๋ฌผ์ ์์'์ ์กฐ์ฑํ๋ค. ๊ฐ์ ์๊ตฌ๊ตฐ ํด์๋ฉด 'ํ์น๋ณผ'์ ์์นํ ์ด ์ ์์์ ๋ถ๋จ์ ์ํ์ ๋์ด ์๋ฌผ๋ก ํํ๋ฅผ ์๋๋ค๋ ์ฃผ์ ๋ก ์ด์๋๋ค.
The deputy commander of the U.N. Command has warned against undermining the armistice framework that has managed the DMZ since the Korean War, objecting to bills promoting peaceful use of the military buffer zone. Lt. Gen. Scott Winter called the armistice a "proven framework" and highlighted growing North Korea-Russia military cooperation as a timely warning of interconnected global threats.
The deputy commander of the U.N. Command has warned against undermining the armistice framework that has managed the DMZ for over 70 years, objecting to bills promoting peaceful use of the military buffer zone. Lt. Gen. Scott Winter called the armistice a "proven framework" that keeps South Korean soldiers safe, while highlighting growing threats from North Korea-Russia military alignment. He emphasized multilateralism would remain vital for deterrence regardless of any future transfer of wartime operational control to Seoul.
