After the G7 summit, Olaf Scholz will travel to the demarcation line between North and South Korea. Here he visits what he and his partners in Ukraine are determined to avoid.
The US officer led Olaf Scholz along the border for a good quarter of an hour, then he stopped. “Mr. Chancellor, may I invite you to North Korea?” asks Colonel Burke Hamilton, pointing to one of the three blue barracks that stand directly on the demarcation line in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. Scholz doesn’t change a face.
In there, the two states once negotiated. Now it is used for visitors, from two sides. The boundary runs across a table that stands in the middle of the room. Scholz goes straight past him and back again. If the chancellor had a world map hanging on the office wall at home, he could now also pin a pin for North Korea.
Source: Stern
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