Editor’s note: This is the fifth and final article in a multi-part series exploring key locations on the inter-Korean border that tourists can visit. Part one about remote border islands in the Yellow Sea can be read here, part two about the Joint Security Area in Panmunjom can be found here, part three about the east coast can be found here and part four about the best border observatories can be found here.

South Korea’s central border area is a little-known and rarely visited part of the country, home to areas of farmland nestled within mountain valleys.

But