The Cold War that doesn't end

About 70 years have passed since the end of World War II and the division of the Korean Peninsula. Communism has collapsed and the Cold War is over, but the Cold War of Northeast Asia persists within the Demilitarized Zone of the Korean Peninsula.The two Koreas set up the DMZ by retreating 2 kilometers each from the Military Demarcation Line they agreed upon in 1953. The barbed-wire fence lining the DMZ is 248 kilometers long and about a million mines are buried in the area. In August 2015, a South Korean soldier was wounded after stepping on a North Korean mine, leading to the two Koreas exchanging live fire inside the DMZ. The incident put the militaries of the two countries on a war footing. The DMZ is the only place in the world where heavily-armed standing armies have been making barbed-wire fences and facing off against each other for over half a century. When will no man's land be able to realize the dream of peace?