Last month I stood on a rock in the Hantangang River running through South Korea’s Cheorwon county and stared up at the stone structure of the Seungil bridge.
Adjacent to the UN-patrolled demilitarised zone wedged between the two Koreas, Cheorwon was controlled by North Korean leader Kim Il Sung’s Workers’ Party of Korea until his ill-fated invasion of the south in 1950.
Now part of South Korea, the county is littered with reminders of Korea’s ongoing division — none more poignant than the bridge.
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