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No man’s lands: where people fear to tread

No-go zones
DMZ, Korea
DMZ, Korea
DMZ, Korea
DMZ, Korea
DMZ, Korea
DMZ, Korea
Area 51, Nevada, USA
Area 51, Nevada, USA
Area 51, Nevada, USA
Area 51, Nevada, USA
Area 51, Nevada, USA
Gruinard Island, Inner Hebrides, Scotland
Skeleton Coast, Namibia
Skeleton Coast, Namibia
Skeleton Coast, Namibia
Skeleton Coast, Namibia
Kantubek, Vozrozhdeniya Island, Uzbekistan
Kantubek, Vozrozhdeniya Island, Uzbekistan
Kantubek, Vozrozhdeniya Island, Uzbekistan
Kantubek, Vozrozhdeniya Island, Uzbekistan
Kantubek, Vozrozhdeniya Island, Uzbekistan
Ilha da Queimada Grande, Brazil
Ilha da Queimada Grande, Brazil
Western Sahara
Western Sahara
Western Sahara
Lake Natron, Tanzania
Lake Natron, Tanzania
Lake Natron, Tanzania
Teufelsberg, Berlin, Germany
Teufelsberg, Berlin, Germany
Teufelsberg, Berlin, Germany
Teufelsberg, Berlin, Germany
Cyprus Buffer Zone
Cyprus Buffer Zone
Cyprus Buffer Zone
Cyprus Buffer Zone
Cyprus Buffer Zone
Cyprus Buffer Zone
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine
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DMZ, Korea

On guided tours, tourists are taken to the infiltration tunnels (pictured) that were dug through the ground to South Korean territory. Four passages have been discovered since the 1970s and when challenged, North Korean officials claimed they were for coal mining. They even painted the walls black in an effort to convince their South Korean counterparts coal was present.
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Sandra Schröpfer

08 July 2020

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