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The Joint Security Area ( JSA, often referred to as the Truce Village or Panmunjom) is the only portion of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) where North and South Korean forces stand face-to-face.
Joint Security Area (Korean: 공동경비구역 JSA) is a 2000 South Korean mystery thriller film directed and co-written by Park Chan-wook and based on the novel DMZ by Park Sang-yeon.
- No-man's land. Neither North nor South Korea have jurisdiction over Panmunjom. It sits inside the heavily mined four-km-wide Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that serves as the de facto border between the two Koreas, and the main road to the zone is lined with barbed-wire fences and security watchtowers.
- A venue for inter-Korean talks. After the Korean war ended in a truce in 1953, Panmunjom was designated as the one place where officials from both sides could meet.
- Like the Korean peninsula, it's divided into two. The "truce village" is divided into two parts by a military demarcation line: one side belonging to the North, the other to the South.
- A hot spot for defections - and violence. Panmunjom has witnessed a number of dramatic incidents. Most recently, a North Korean soldier dashed across the border in an extremely rare and dramatic defection in November, when his comrades fired at least 40 rounds in an effort to kill him.
Sep 9, 2000 · Joint Security Area: Directed by Park Chan-wook. With Lee Yeong-ae, Lee Byung-hun, Song Kang-ho, Kim Tae-woo. After a shooting incident at the North-South Korean border DMZ leaves two North Korean soldiers dead, a neutral Swiss and Swedish team investigates what actually happened.
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- Action, Drama, Thriller
- Park Chan-wook
- 2000-09-09
Jul 19, 2023 · The Joint Security Area, also known as Panmunjom, was created as part of the 1953 armistice that halted the Korean War. Both sides have troops stationed there. Conference buildings straddle...
Dec 23, 2020 · 61.1K subscribers. 118K views 3 years ago #JSA #arrowvideo #boutiquebluray. ...more. Before Oldboy, before The Handmaiden, visionary filmmaker Park Chan-wook helmed this gripping tale of deceit,...
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- Arrow Video
The Joint Security Area (JSA) or Panmunjom, often called the "Truce Village" in both the media [1] [2] and various military accounts [3], represents the only portion of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) where South and North Korean forces stand face-to-face.
