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unusual facts about Joint Security Area



Bridge of No Return

It was portrayed in the South Korean movie Joint Security Area, where the shooting of two North Korean guards becomes the focus of an investigation and of the movie, and the American movie Salt, when agent Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is traded for a captured North Korean official after being held captive in North Korea.


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Bridge of No Return

The bridge was actively used by the North Koreans up until the Axe Murder Incident in August 1976, at which time the United Nations Command demanded that the Military Demarcation Line within the Joint Security Area be enforced and clearly marked.