Seeable but Untouchable, North Korea
Odu Moutain Unification Observatory in Paju, Gyeonggi-do, August 28th 2022 Can you belive it? North Korea is just right over there! Another unbelievable thing is how we hadn’t visited here before while living in Paju over 10 years. Here in Korea, we’re already in Autumn. Beautifully blue sky and clean air, which is perfect to see something distance. We arrived very early time, before 10:00 a.m.(It opends 9:00 a.m.), but there were many foreign visitors already at the observatory on the cliff. Silent villages just across the river Alex said he coud see some people, but when I looked at the village through the telescope I couldn’t spot anyone. My city Paju has the highway, called Jayuro which means ‘Liberty Road’, connecting Seoul to the very northern tip of South Korea. Many big towns are next to this highway and the vast majority of residents of the towns use Jayuro to commute to their work places in Seoul, no wonder there is the rush-hour. This is a photo of a part of the...