copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of South Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-04): The Korean Demilitarized Zone (Korean: 한반도 비무장 지대) is a heavily militarized strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula near the 38th parallel north. The demilitarized zone (DMZ) is a border barrier that divides the peninsula roughly in half. It was established to serve as a buffer zone between the countries of North Korea and South Korea under the provisions of the Korean Armistice Agreement in 1953, an agreement between North Korea, China, and the United Nations Command. [...] - ^ "A map of the study site presenting the location of Military Demarcation Line(MDL), Southern Limit Line(SLL) and Civilian Control Line(CCL). Civilian Control Zone is located between SLL and CCL. Border Line(BL) is designated within 25km from CCL". Archived from the original on 26 April 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2020 – via Development of Evaluation Indices for Ecological Restoration of Degraded Environments Near DMZ in the Republic of Korea. [...] - Photo of road linking DPRK to Paju, ROK - International Boundary Study No. 22 – May 24, 1963 Korea "Military Demarcation Line" Boundary Archived 3 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine - Interactive map with points of interest along the DMZ - Korean Demilitarized Zone - 1953 introductions - 1953 establishments in Korea - Military installations established in 1953 - Border barriers - Demilitarized zones - International borders - Biosphere reserves of South Korea - Cold War terminology - Korean reunification - Military of North Korea - Military history of Korea - North Korea–South Korea border - North Korea–South Korea relations
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of South Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2019-06-10): The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is a region on the Korean peninsula that demarcates North Korea from South Korea. Roughly following the 38th parallel, the 150-mile-long DMZ incorporates territory on both sides of the cease-fire line as it existed at the end of the Korean War (1950–53). The areas north and south of the demarcation are heavily fortified, though skirmishes between the two sides are rare. Located within the territory is the "truce village" of P’anmunjom, but most of the rest of the land has reverted to nature, making it one of the most pristine undeveloped areas in Asia. The demilitarized zone (DMZ) incorporates territory on both sides of the cease-fire line as it existed at the end of the Korean War (1950–53) and was created by pulling back the respective forces 1.2 miles (2 km) along each side of the line. It runs for about 150 miles (240 km) across the peninsula, from the mouth of the Han River on the west coast to a little south of the North Korean town of Kosong on the east coast. Located within the DMZ is the "truce village" of P’anmunjom, about 5 miles (8 km) east of Kaesong, N.Kor. It was the site of peace discussions during the Korean War and has since been the location of various conferences over issues related to North and South Korea, their allies, and the United Nations.
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of South Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2018-02-09): The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) was established in 1953 as part of the Korean Armistice Agreement between the United Nations, North Korea, and China to end the Korean War. It’s in essence a line in the sand that extends the entire 160 mile width of the Korean peninsula, and at one point is just around 50 miles from the Olympic village in PyeongChang. [...] TIME went to the eastern end of the DMZ, which stops at the Sea of Japan — known in Korea as the East Sea — for a look at some of the most remote portions of the 160 mile demarcation line. Barbed wire fencing marks the entire two-mile-wide DMZ, and on either side of the no-fight zone, mines pepper the barren landscape and watch stations for patrolling soldiers rise along its entire length. [...] Despite such ominous reminders, the DMZ has become, like any must-see destination around the world, a big business. At this eastern end of the DMZ in Goseong, government officials are busy constructing a massive observatory tower scheduled to open this summer, to replace the small building built by the South Korean army in 1983 from which visitors currently view the last section of border fence dividing the two nations. Enterprising entrepreneurs also sell jewelry, as well as liquor, stamps and souvenirs from North Korea.
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of South Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-09-03): The military demarcation line is also known as the ceasefire line, and it refers to the borders set based on where South and North Korea occupied at the time of the signing of the Armistice Agreement of the Korean War on July 27, 1953. Since the military demarcation line was drawn, tragically, free travel between the two Koreas became impossible. A Boundary Line in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) (1969) by The Bureau of Public InformationNational Archives of Korea 2-1. Southern Limit Line and Northern Limit Line [...] A military demarcation line shall be fixed, and both sides shall withdraw 1.2 miles (2 km) from this line so as to establish a demilitarized zone between the opposing forces. A demilitarized zone shall be established as a buffer zone to prevent the occurrence of incidents, which might lead to a resumption of hostilities; as provided in the paragraph.
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of South Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2013-05-08): Sixty years ago North and South Korea ended the "Korean Conflict" by agreeing to the Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean State. The agreement—a cease-fire, not a peace treaty—called for the Korean peninsula to be divided by a Military Demarcation Line (MDL) and a buffer, the demilitarized zone (DMZ), whose function would be to "prevent the occurrence of incidents which might lead to a resumption of hostilities." [...] Although it approximates the positions held by communist and U.S.-led U.N. forces for most of the last two-thirds of the war, the MDL is not the same line that had divided Korea before North invaded South in June, 1950. That line was the 38th parallel, whose origins as modern Korea's first intra-national boundary can be traced back to the final hours of World War II, when officials from the U.S. War and State Departments were preparing to negotiate with the Soviet Union over how Japanese-occupied Korea would be administered following Japan's surrender.
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of South Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-01-01): - First, both sides agreed to cease military exercises along the Military Demarcation Line from 01 November 2018. Specifically all live-fire artillery drills and field training exercises at the regiment level and above will be ceased, within five kilometers of the MDL. Both sides also agreed to designate No Fly Zones for all aircraft above the MDL area, from November 1st. [...] The military demarcation line (MDL) of separation between the belligerent sides at the close of the Korean war forms North Korea's boundary with South Korea. A demilitarized zone (DMZ) extends for 2,000 meters (just over 1 mile) on either side of the MDL. Both the North and South Korean Governments hold that the MDL as only a temporary administrative line, not a permanent border. The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is an area of land encompassing 4 kilometers-wide strip of land straddling the 151 mile long Military Demarcation Line (MDL). The 27 July 1953 Armistice Agreement established the DMZ along the approximate line of ground contact between the opposing forces at the time the truce ended the Korean War.
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of South Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2022-02-08): Military Demarcation Line and Demilitarized Zone 1. A military demarcation line shall be fixed and both sides shall withdraw two (2) kilometers from this line so as to establish a demilitarized zone between the opposing forces. A demilitarized zone shall be established as a buffer zone to prevent the occurrence of incidents which might lead to a resumption of hostilities. [...] 59. (a) All civilians who, at the time this Armistice Agreement become effective, are in territory under the military control of the Commander-in-Chief, United Nations Command, and who, on 24 June 1950, resided north of the Military Demarcation Line established in this Armistice Agreement shall, if they desire to return home, be permitted and assisted by the Commander-in-Chief, United Nations Command, to return to the area north of the military Demarcation Line; and all civilians who, at the time this Armistice Agreement becomes effective, are in territory under the military control of the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army and the Commander of the Chinese People's Volunteers, and who on 24 June 1950, resided south of the Military Demarcation Line established in this Armistice Agreement shall, if they desire to return home, be permitted and assisted by the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army and the Commander of the Chinese People's Volunteers to return to the area south Military Demarcation Line.
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of South Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-04-18): The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is a strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula that serves as a buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea. The DMZ is a de facto border barrier and divides the Korean Peninsula approximately in half. It roughly follows latitude 38°N (the 38th parallel), the original demarcation line between North Korea and South Korea at the end of World War II. The Demilitarized Zone incorporates territory on both sides of the cease-fire line as it existed at the end of the Korean War (1950-1953), and was created by pulling back the respective forces 1.2 miles along each side of the line. [...] The Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean State was signed on July 27th, 1953, and resulted in the creation of the DMZ as each side agreed to move their troops 1.2 miles back from the front line, establishing a 2.5-mile wide buffer zone. The Military Demarcation Line (DML) goes through the center of the DMZ and indicates where the front was when the agreement was signed. Owing to this theoretical stalemate and genuine hostility between North and South Korea, large numbers of troops are still stationed along both sides of the buffer zone. Each side holds constant guard against potential aggression from the other side, even 68 years after its establishment. The armistice agreement clearly explains the number of military personnel and what kind of weapons are allowed in the DMZ.
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of South Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-03-14): Recently, North Korea raised military tensions with South Korea to an unprecedentedly high level. At the Korean Workers’ Party plenum at the end of last year, Kim Jong Un declared South Korea to be "the most hostile state" and inter-Korean relations "a warring belligerent relationship," and ordered North Korea’s army to "prepare a great event to conquer the territory of South Korea." The nuclear-armed North Korea appears confident that it can overwhelm the nonnuclear South Korea and deter U.S. military intervention. However, it is unlikely that North Korea will start a premeditated, all-out war against the South for the time being, since a war would be suicidal and bring about the end of its regime. Moreover, North Korea’s economy cannot afford to sustain an all-out war, and neither China nor Russia would support a North Korea-initiated war. On the other hand, a limited military attack by the North can happen anytime near the demarcation line. An accidental military collision and escalation can also occur anytime due to the unusually high level of military preparedness and tensions between the two Koreas as well as their preemptive doctrines.
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of South Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-06-11): According to local media reports, the South Korean Military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said around 20 North Korean soldiers crossed the military demarcation line that runs between the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two countries. [...] While the border violation appears to be inadvertent, it comes at a time of heightened border tensions between North and South Korea. Late last month, North Korea flew hundreds of balloons carrying trash and feces across the border into the South. The South Korea military’s chemical and biological warfare response team inspected the balloons after they fell on their territory and issued an alert asking people to avoid them. Pyongyang said the balloons were in response to a long-running effort by South Korean activists and North Korean defectors using balloons to deliver propaganda material to their country. These materials usually include leaflets criticizing the Kim Jong-un regime and USB thumb drives with South Korean media like K-pop songs and K-dramas. The first trash balloon incident took place one day after a North Korean rocket carrying a spy satellite exploded shortly after launch. Since the start of this month, North Korea has flown hundreds more such trash balloons into South Korean territory—angering officials in Seoul. South Korea retaliated by suspending a 2018 deal between the two countries to scale down border tensions.
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of South Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (1998-07-20): 38th parallel, popular name given to latitude 38° N that in East Asia roughly demarcates North Korea and South Korea. The line was chosen by U.S. military planners at the Potsdam Conference (July 1945) near the end of World War II as an army boundary, north of which the U.S.S.R. was to accept the surrender of the Japanese forces in Korea and south of which the Americans were to accept the Japanese surrender. The line was intended as a temporary division of the country, but the onset of the Cold War led to the establishment of a separate U.S.-oriented regime in South Korea under Syngman Rhee and a communist regime in North Korea under Kim Il-Sung. After the outbreak of the Korean War between North and South Korea in June 1950, United Nations (UN) forces, which under U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur had come to the aid of the South, moved north of the 38th parallel in an attempt to occupy North Korea. With the intervention of Chinese troops in support of the North, the war came to a stalemate roughly along that parallel. The cease-fire line, fixed at the time of the armistice agreement, gave South Korea possession of an eastern mountainous area north of the parallel, which was the major battlefront when the demarcation line was fixed. Likewise, North Korea was given a roughly triangular portion of territory south of the 38th parallel and west of longitude 127° E that includes the city of Kaesŏng.
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of South Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-06-11): It extends between 37°02' and 38°37' north latitude and 127°05' and 129°22' east longitude, and the 38th Parallel crosses the middle of the province. The province is also crossed by the 145-km-long Military Demarcation Line (MDL), which starts at 38°45' north latitude, in Hyeonnae-myeon in Goseong-gun to the southwest, to a site at 38°20' north latitude linking Hyangnobong Peak, Mondong-ri and Gimhwa-eup. Gangwon State is 150 km wide, from east to west, and 243 km long, from north to south, and has an eastern coastline of about 314 km. [...] The total area of Gangwon State is 20,569Km² of which the area south of the MDL is 16,873.51㎢ , which accounts for 82% of the province's total area and 16.8% of the national territory of South Korea.
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of South Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-05-31): The Northern Limit Line divides the maritime boundary between North Korea (the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, hereafter DPRK) and South Korea (the Republic of Korea, hereafter ROK). Just as in inter-Korean relations more broadly, North Korea’s strategy to exploit strategic and legal ambiguity dominates the security, political, and even ecological morass in the maritime domain. North Korea exploits the legal ambiguities of the disputed border and takes advantage of the broader inherent dangers of maritime security. [...] The NLL was drawn a month after the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed in late July 1953. The agreement named five islands that would fall under South Korean control. These islands then formed the trajectory of the land-based Military Demarcation Line (MDL)—from which the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is measured—to sea. Some evidence suggests that UNC officials chose the line to keep South Korean civilian ships, especially fishing vessels, away from North Korean soil.[1]
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of South Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2018-04-26): Mr Kim is set to cross the military demarcation line - a clearly defined marker of the official land border between the territories. He will, however, remain within the Demilitarised Zone. [...] Mr Moon will meet Mr Kim and his delegation of nine officials at the concrete blocks which mark the demarcation line on the border, Mr Im told reporters on Thursday. South Korean honour guards will then escort the leaders to a welcome ceremony at a plaza in Panmunjom, a military compound in the demilitarised zone (DMZ) between the two countries.
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of South Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2018-05-09): Dr. Daniel Pinkston: Kim Jong-un led a delegation of senior North Korean officials to the southern side of the Joint Security Area (JSA) at Panmunjom, where the Korean War Armistice was signed in July 1953. This marked the first time a North Korean leader ever stepped foot into the territory south of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL). The two leaders held talks and President Moon hosted a dinner that was attended by their wives and other senior officials. Following their talks, the two sides issued the "Panmunjom Declaration."
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of South Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-06-14): Vasilii Yakovlevich Matuzok had dreamed of fleeing the oppression of communism since his high school days in Moscow. At age twenty-two, he became a translator in the Soviet embassy in Pyongyang, capital city of dictator Kim Il-sung’s Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Almost as soon as Matuzok arrived in the Far East, he began planning his defection. His opportunity came on 23 November 1984. That day he joined a group of Soviet-bloc Europeans for a tour of the so-called "Truce Village" at Panmunjom. All Matuzok required for escape was a moment of inattention by his handlers. A quick sprint across the Military Demarcation Line would bring him to safety and freedom. [...] When the two sides signed the armistice in July 1953, the front lines (Main Line of Resistance, or MLR, in contemporary doctrine) bisected the Korean peninsula near the 38th Parallel, rising well north of the parallel in the east and descending below the parallel in the west. Following the Armistice, the ground contact line became the Military Demarcation Line (MDL), a de facto inter-Korean border. To preclude accidental violations of each side’s territory by the other, a four-kilometer-wide demilitarized zone (DMZ) insulates the MDL to this day. Inside the DMZ, numbered yellow signs posted every one hundred meters indicate the border. The signs identify the MDL in Korean and Chinese on the north-facing side, and Korean and English on the south-facing side.
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of South Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2018-04-27): South Korean President Moon Jae-in was waiting to greet him at the military demarcation line that has long divided the two Koreas. The two leaders shook hands at the line, and then, in a symbolic move, Moon joined Kim on the northern side of the line before they crossed into the southern side together. [...] People watch live footage of the meeting from a railway station in Seoul, South Korea. An audible gasp ran through the room as Kim walked down the steps towards the military demarcation line, followed by a loud cheers and applause from South Koreans in the room as the historic handshake took place and Kim stepped onto the south side. Jung Yeon-je/AFP/Getty Images [...] A South Korean man weeps in Seoul as he watches Kim cross the military demarcation line. Woohae Cho/Getty Images
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of South Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-06-11): Bloodshed and violent confrontations have occasionally occurred at the Koreas' heavily fortified border, called the Demilitarized Zone. While Sunday's incident happened amid simmering tensions between the two Koreas, observers say it won't likely develop into another source of animosity as South Korea believes the North Koreans didn't deliberately commit the border intrusion and North Korea also didn't return fire. At 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, some North Korean soldiers who were engaged in unspecified work on the northern side of the border crossed the military demarcation line that bisects the two countries, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said. [...] Lee gave no further details. But South Korean media reports said that about 20-30 North Korean soldiers had entered South Korean territory about 50 meters (165 feet) after they likely lost their way. The reports said most of the North Korean soldiers were carrying pickaxes and other construction tools.
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of South Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-02): On 27 April 2018, during the 2018 inter-Korean summit, the Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Reunification of the Korean Peninsula was adopted between Kim Jong Un, the Supreme Leader of North Korea, and Moon Jae-in, the President of South Korea. During the September 2018 inter-Korean summit, several actions were taken toward reunification along the border, such as the dismantling of guard posts and the creation of buffer zones to prevent clashes. On 12 December 2018, soldiers from both Koreas crossed the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) into the opposition countries for the first time in history.[4][5]
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of South Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2019-07-01): It noted with satisfaction the historic moment — "that a sitting U.S. president crossed the military demarcation line and stepped into our territory for the first time."
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of South Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-06-13): U.N. Command — a multinational military body tasked with enforcing the armistice between South and North Korea — said it is investigating Seoul’s claims that around 20 North Korean troops crossed the Military Demarcation Line at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, according to an unattributed email statement from the command. The demarcation line marks the border between the two Koreas within the DMZ, a buffer zone roughly 150 miles long and 2½ miles wide. [...] The DMZ contains thick foliage that makes it difficult to see signs denoting one’s territory, South Korean Army Col. Lee Sung-jun said during a news conference Tuesday.