Coffee drinkers can sip their beverages and view a quiet North Korean mountain village from a Starbucks shop at a South Korean border observatory. Customers have to pass a military checkpoint before entering the observatory that overlooks a North Korean mountain and a nearby village.
Visitors sit at a newly opened Starbucks store as North Korea ’s Kaephung county is seen in the background at the observatory of the Aegibong Peace Ecopark in Gimpo, South Korea , Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. North Korea ’s Kaephung county is reflected on the newly opened Starbucks store’s window at the observatory of the Aegibong Peace Ecopark in Gimpo, South Korea , Friday, Nov. 29, 2024.
The tables and windows face North Korea at the Starbucks, where about 40 people, a few of them foreigners, came to the opening Friday. The observatory is the key facility at Aegibong park, which was built on a hill that was a fierce battle site during the 1950-53 Korean War. The park also has gardens, exhibition and conference halls and a war memorial dedicated to fallen marines.
has been trying to raise pressure on South Korea and threatening to attack his rival with nuclear weapons if provoked. North Korea has also engaged in psychological and electronic warfare against South Korea, such as flying trash-laden balloons into the South and disrupting GPS signals from border areas near the South’s biggest airport.
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