An Inflatable Tour Next to No Man's Land, Part 3

Part 3: The Second Tunnel

Second on our tour was, rather conveniently, the Second Tunnel. The Second Tunnel is one (actually, the second, as you may have guessed) of three tunnels the North used to invade in the Korean War. Larger than the prison escape tunnels I've seen on TV but small enough to be uncomfortable, the hard hat we were provided on entry proved useful and necessary more than once. Photographs were prohibited and would be unimpressive; it is not the appearance of a tunnel that means something, it is strolling the path of hundreds of thousands of soldiers that strikes a chord.

Again the paradoxical peace rears its head: it is said the North is still tunneling across the DMZ, and that patrols regularly find (and close) the next would-be attack tunnel.

Picture (of us outside donning hard hats) will follow when I get it from the instructor.