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Kijŏngdong, Kijŏng-dong or Kijŏng tong ("Peace Village") is a village in P'yŏnghwa-ri (),〔 Kaesong-si,〔P'yŏnghwa-ri belonged to P'anmun-gun () until the creation of Kaesong Industrial Region in November 2002, when P'anmun-gun was dissolved and its territory divided among Kaesong, Changp'ung-gun and Kaep'ung-gun. P'yŏnghwa-ri joined Kaesong.〕 North Korea. It is situated in the North's half of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).〔 Also known in North Korea as ''Peace Village'' (),〔("Kijungdong, North Korea's Propaganda Village" ) November 12, 2006 〕 it has been widely referred to as 'Propaganda Village' by those outside North Korea, especially in Western and South Korean media ().〔("Korean Demilitarized Zone" ) ''Globalsecurity.org'' 〕〔 Kijŏngdong is one of two villages permitted to remain in the 4-kilometer-wide (2.5 mi) DMZ set up under the 1953 armistice ending the Korean War;〔 the other is the South Korean village of Daeseong-dong, away. The coordinates for the village are . ==History== The official position of the North Korean government is that the village contains a 200-family collective farm, serviced by a childcare center, kindergarten, primary and secondary schools, and a hospital.〔''A Sightseeng Guide to Korea'' by Pang hwon Ju & Hwang Bong Hyok, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Pyongyang, DPRK. 1991〕 However, observation from the South suggests that the town is an uninhabited village built in the 1950s in a propaganda effort to encourage South Korean defection and to house the DPRK soldiers manning the network of artillery positions, fortifications and underground marshalling bunkers that surround the border zone.〔〔〔Potts, Rolf. (Korea's No-Man's-Land ). ''Salon'', February 3, 1999〕〔Sullivan, Kevin. (Borderline Absurdity: A Fun-Filled Tour of the Korean DMZ ). ''Washington Post'' Foreign Service, January 11, 1998.〕 The village features a number of brightly painted, poured-concrete multi-story buildings and apartments, many apparently wired for electricity. The town was oriented so that the bright blue roofs and white sides of the buildings next to the massive DPRK flag would be the most distinguishing features when viewed from across the border. Scrutiny with modern telescopic lenses, however, has led to the conclusion that the buildings are concrete shells lacking window glass or even interior rooms,〔〔O'Neill, Tom. "Korea's DMZ: Dangerous Divide". National Geographic, July 2003.〕 with building lights turned on and off at set times and empty sidewalks swept by caretakers in an effort to preserve the illusion of activity. The village is surrounded by extensive cultivated fields clearly visible to visitors to the North Korean side of the DMZ. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kijong-dong」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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