Bridge of no return

	Bridge of No Return (photographed from South Korea)
Korean spelling
Korean alphabet :	돌아 오지 않는 다리
Revised Romanization :	Doraoji Anneun Dari
McCune-Reischauer :	Toraoji annŭn tari

The so-called Bridge of No Return is a bridge that crosses the military demarcation line between North and South Korea . It was used as an exchange site for prisoners at the end of the Korean War in 1953. The last time the bridge was used was the release of the crew of the USS Pueblo in 1968. There are guard houses right on the bridge: the CP # 3 of the United Nations Command and the KPA # 4 of the Korean People's Army . In 1976 there was an incident near the bridge when American soldiers tried to cut a tree that blocked the view. North Korean soldiers then crossed the bridge and killed two US soldiers after they did not stop cutting the tree.

In feature films

In the 20th James Bond film Die Another Day (2002), a bridge in the demilitarized zone is shown as an exchange location.
Park Chan-wook's film Joint Security Area takes place by the bridge.
In Salt the bridge serves as a place for an exchange of prisoners.

gallery

Bridge of No Return (December 1975)
Bridge of No Return (March 1976)
Map of the Joint Security Area (1976)
south end of the bridge
Bridge of No Return (2012)

Web links

Commons : Bridge of No Return - collection of images

Individual evidence

↑ Barton Bernstein: The Struggle over the Korean Armistice: Prisoners of Repatriation? In: Bruce Cumings (ed.): Child of Conflict: The Korean-American Relationship 1943–1953 . University of Washington Press, 1983, ISBN 0-295-95995-9 .
↑ US Army Forces, Far East, 8086th Army Unit, Military History Detachment. Operation Little Switch , 4 vols., N.d.
^ Frederick Carl Schumacher Jr., George C. Wilson: Bridge of No Return: The Ordeal of the USS Pueblo . Harcourt, New York 1971.
^ Conflict over a Tree in the DMZ. In: BBC. August 18, 2016, accessed November 24, 2019 .
^ Toby Luckhurst: The DMZ 'gardening job' that almost sparked a war. In: BBC. August 21, 2019, accessed November 24, 2019 .

37.956125 126.67059722222Coordinates: 37 ° 57 '22.1 " N , 126 ° 40' 14.1" E

[1] Barton Bernstein: The Struggle over the Korean Armistice: Prisoners of Repatriation? In: Bruce Cumings (ed.): Child of Conflict: The Korean-American Relationship 1943–1953 . University of Washington Press, 1983, ISBN 0-295-95995-9 .

[2] US Army Forces, Far East, 8086th Army Unit, Military History Detachment. Operation Little Switch , 4 vols., N.d.

[3] Frederick Carl Schumacher Jr., George C. Wilson: Bridge of No Return: The Ordeal of the USS Pueblo . Harcourt, New York 1971.

[4] Conflict over a Tree in the DMZ. In: BBC. August 18, 2016, accessed November 24, 2019 .

[5] Toby Luckhurst: The DMZ 'gardening job' that almost sparked a war. In: BBC. August 21, 2019, accessed November 24, 2019 .