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Conservative Matt Lewis and liberal Bill Scher talk politics and stay friends.

The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is a 250-kilometer-long and 4-kilometer-wide strip of land that divides the Korean Peninsula roughly in half, serving as a buffer zone between North and South Korea. Established in 1953 as part of the Korean Armistice Agreement, which brought an end to the Korean War, the DMZ has become a symbol of the ongoing tensions and the unresolved conflict between the two nations. Despite its name, the DMZ is one of the most heavily militarized borders in the world, with both sides maintaining a substantial military presence along the frontier. The history of the DMZ ...

Left-wing political cartoonist Ted Rall and right-wing political cartoonist Scott Stantis cut the BS out of today's news, politics and pop culture.

A "close-up look at the cloistered country" (USA Today), See You Again in Pyongyang is American writer Travis Jeppesen's "probing" and "artful" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of his travels in North Korea--an eye-opening portrait that goes behind the headlines about Trump and Kim...

Welcome a conversation about North Korea that spans from Kim Jong-un, China-North Korea relations, animosity with South Korea, missile tests, North Korean defectors to real issues affecting the lives of North Koreans today. Join us for a chat about the funny and heartbreaking things we notice about the Hermit Kingdom today. The DMZ is a Crossing Borders podcast and Crossing Borders works to help North Korean refugees living in China and South Korea.Learn more about