The most heavily militarized border on Earth, a hundred-and-fifty-mile strip of barbed wire and landmines cutting across the Korean Peninsula, has been sealed off from human contact for seventy years — and quietly become one of the most biodiverse wildlife refuges in Asia.

The most heavily militarized strip of land on Earth is also, on the available scientific evidence, one of the most ecologically important. The gap between what the DMZ was designed to accomplish in 1953 and what it has actually produced across the subsequent seven decades is, in essential respects, the central irony of contemporary Korean [...] The post The most heavily militarized border on Earth, a hundred-and-fifty-mile strip of barbed wire and landmines cutting across the Korean Peninsula, h