Demilitarized Zone attracts about 6.5 million visitors every year to peer into secretive North Korea

A living piece of the Cold War, the so-called Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is guarded by a million soldiers and another million landmines ranged along the 248km (154.1 mile) strip.

This is the place former US President Bill Clinton called "the scariest place on Earth" - and the place South Korea has now decided to create its new eco-tourism zone.

About 6.5 million visitors come every year to peer through binoculars into secretive North Korea. They step into the infiltration tunnels and have their photographs taken in front of the war-time monuments and relics.

But South Korea's government is not happy with the image of the DMZ as a place of war and tension. It is hoping to rebrand the area around it as the "PLZ", or the "Peace and Life Zone".

Sources:
BBC News