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This week Tripping the Wire

La Esteliana/lastenia.accioninformativa@yahoo.es Por:  Tom Hundley Senior Editor  THE MOST DANGEROUS BORDER North Korea’s recent saber rattling and its alarmingly explicit threat to strike U.S. forces in the region with “cutting-edge smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear strike means,” has focused new attention on one of the world’s most dangerous borders—the DMZ that divides the two Koreas. Pulitzer Center grantee Tomas van Houtryve has spent months looking into North Korea from its tightly sealed borders. His images along the 154-mile DMZ are stark and compelling .       "I encountered every range of fortification imaginable: triple razor-wire fences, concrete walls, land mines, anti-tank columns, trenches, road blocks, tunnels, bunkers, watch towers, and, of course, South Korean and American military bases," he told Foreign Policy . "There is even an immense dam with an empty reservoir built at a cost of $429 million on the South Korean si