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VP Pence comes face to face with North Koreans at DMZ

https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/vp-pence-comes-face-to-face-with-north-koreans-at-dmz-1.463959

Stars and Stripes: Vice President Mike Pence greets U.S. and South Korean soldiers assigned to the Demilitarized Zone that divides North and South Korea, Monday, April 17, 2017.

The vice president made remarks to reporters inside the hall, calling the unique border area “the historic frontier of freedom” as he looked out through glass doors onto the blue buildings straddling the demarcation line that divides the peninsula.

But suddenly American and South Korean soldiers rushed out to form a security cordon, and Pence — accompanied by the commander of U.S. Forces Korea Gen. Vincent Brooks and their entourage — walked out onto the steps.

Two North Korean soldiers filmed the scene from their side of the concrete berm that separates the two sides in the truce village of Panmunjom.

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https://twitter.com/VP/status/1062214904826933248

The pressure campaign will continue, and sanctions will remain in full force, until we achieve the final, fully verified denuclearization of North Korea. The U.S., Japan, and the world will accept nothing less.

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