The Stones of Peace

I'm take-out coffee too.

Behind me is North Korea. I don't understand how people surrounded by such beautiful mountains can focus so much energy on oppression and violence.
Two of the grade 11boys in my school told me their life in the next five years: Finish high school next year, spend one year at university, then spend two years in the military, and then three years finishing university. I think that's actually six years.

North Korea.

The train that got blown up.



"The stones of peace" is a monument of stones collected from war zones around the world.
"Together we pray that this country divided into North and South be reunified and its people divided into left and right be reunited."
DO NOT COME CLOSE OR TAKE PICTURES

So over the weekend, I went with a tour group to see the DMZ, the Demilitarized Zone, since I live practically across the steet from it. There was a lot of barren land and areas we couldn't get too close to unless we wanted to get shot at or blown up by a land mine. The North Koreans actually dug these huge tunnels underground, like four of them, that were intended to go all the way to Seoul for a surprise attack. We got to walk in these tunnels but couldnt take pictures. It was pretty crazy.
The weather was beautiful. Sunny and blue skies.