War and Peace (with apologies to Leo Tolstoy)

Balance. That’s the word that sprang to mind while crossing the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the heavily fortified buffer either side of the infamous 38th parallel, the pivotal line between war and peace shared by North and South Korea for more than 50 years. With balance comes harmony, yin and yang, a concept which has preoccupied the people of the Korean Peninsula for thousands of years.