However, observation from the South suggests that the town is actually an uninhabited Potemkin village built at great expense in the 1950s in a propaganda effort to encourage South Korean defection and to house the DPRK soldiers manning the extensive network of artillery positions, fortifications and underground marshalling bunkers that abut the border zone.
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According to North Korean state media, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il scored 11 holes-in-one over 18 holes in his first and only round of golf.