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North Korea Peace Museum

North Korea Peace Museum in 1976

The North Korea Peace Museum is in the building constructed to house the signing of the Korean War Armistice Agreement on 27 July 1953. It is located in the former village of Panmunjeom (P'anmunjŏm) in the Gyeonggi province, North Korea. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1280 × 960 pixel, file size: 69 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Picture of the building constructed to house the signing of the Korean War Armistice Agreement on 27 July 1953. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1280 × 960 pixel, file size: 69 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Picture of the building constructed to house the signing of the Korean War Armistice Agreement on 27 July 1953. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 767 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2946 × 2304 pixel, file size: 5. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 767 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2946 × 2304 pixel, file size: 5. ... Combatants United Nations:  Republic of Korea,  Australia,  Belgium,  Luxembourg,  Canada,  Colombia,  Ethiopia,  France,  Greece,  Luxembourg,  Netherlands,  New Zealand,  Philippines,  South Africa,  Thailand,  Turkey,  United Kingdom,  United States Medical staff:  Denmark,  Australia,  Italy,  Norway,  Sweden Communist states:  Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,  Peoples Republic of China,  Soviet Union Commanders... is the 208th day of the year (209th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Panmunjeom in Gyeonggi province is a village on the de facto border between North and South Korea, where the 1953 armistice that halted the Korean War was signed. ... Gyeonggi is the most populous province in South Korea. ...

It is located approximately 500 m. north of the Joint Security Area (JSA), in the northern half of the Demilitarized Zone. The building is all that remains of the former village, and since the mid 1950s, references to Panmunjom actually refer to the Joint Security Area itself. The Joint Security Area (JSA), often called the Truce Village in both the media[1][2] and various military accounts[3], is the only portion of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) where South and North Korean forces stand face-to-face. ... Map of the Korean DMZ. The DMZ is given in red. ...

In the 1975-1979 timeframe, all North Korean tours entering the JSA would make a stop there first, so the tourists could look at doctored photos of Americans bayoneting Korean babies, President Kennedy eating a Korean baby^{[citation needed]}, and of Kim Il Sung performing various heroic deeds during the Korean War (per conversations with a Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission officer who had been there in 1976). Kim Il-sung (April 15, 1912–July 8, 1994) was a Korean Communist politician and the ruler of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North Korea) from 1948 until his death. ... Entrance to the NNSC camp (Photo January 1976 from CP# 5). ...

The weapons used to kill US Army Capt. Bonifas and Lt. Barrett in the Axe Murder Incident of 1976 are also rumored to reside within the North Korean "Peace" Museum. The Museum lies just outside what has become known as "Propaganda Village"; an uninhabited village with electronic timers on the lights in buildings with no glass in the windows and loudspeaker that denounces the Republic of South Korea.