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12,001 Miracles at North Korea's Kumgang Mountains

Some of the "12,000 pinnacles" tower over the Manmulsang track, in the Kumgang Mountains

Can the sound of a temple bell call forth a mountain range? It would seem unlikely. But in the case of Korea's "holy of holies" Mount Kumgang (aka Kumgangsan, Geumgangsan National Park, or the Diamond Mountains), nothing appears to be impossible.


Living on the fault line

South Korean sentry stands duty in Panmunjom

Within sixty kilometres of Seoul, a conurbation of twenty million, Stalinist troops stand ready to shoot on sight in defence of their hermit kingdom


 

 
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