Tour of Panmunjom, DMZ, MAC Building, and Panmungak Observation Deck from the North Korean side.

The blue Military Armistice Commission (MAC) buildings lie directly on the North Korea/South Korea border, half of the building in each country. The two sides meet here for negotiations. Here is a video clip of me exiting the border building on the North Korea side, surrounded and accompanied by North Korean soldiers as we walk to the Panmungak pavilion and climb the stairs to the observation deck for an unobstructed view back across the south of the Joint Security & border areas.

[@KennyPang]

wow! they are on the North side!!!! I never saw that before!

[@ZhangtheGreat]

If you are allowed to visit North Korea, you're taken on a government-sponsored tour of specific areas, and one of the places you'll be taken to visit is the DMZ from the North's side.

[@mangoandcum]

Thanks for showing south side buildings from the north

[@TalkAlot7000]

The ROK side mainly uses cameras to monitor (something NK can't afford) unless an authorised tour group or important meeting is in place. This is to entice defections as the NK soldiers might see it as a chance to hop over to freedom (according to the army captain stationed at the DMZ). I been to both sides and its easier than people think. I don't have a particularly exciting life either, I'm just an average family guy but I as a journalist I get to see different places.

[@gregolino86]

Oh! Si sad. I dream in going to North Korea... Even just puting my feet in North Korea would be great. :-/

[@davidflack8531]

When you are inside the blue building, you can walk around the negotiating table. The guide will tell you that the table sits across the border (half of the table is in North Korea, half in South Korea, and each side's negotiators sit on the seats in their respective halves), so if you walk around the table then technically you will have stepped foot in North Korea! :)

[@jpsmith81]

What was it like inside Panmungak? This is the only video that I've seen where you actually see the inside.

[@NorthKoreaVagabond]

Went there a couple months too, on the North side also. The North guards seem a lot more relaxed and friendly than the South ones. The South ones stand in martial arts poses with fists clenched, like some kind of evil terminator androids itching to kill. I talked to one NK guard and he was all smiles.

[@CapCor]

Why aren't their any guards in this video was their guards when you went

[@NorthKoreaVagabond]

Captain Corona All the military I met on the North side were super laid back, smiling and friendly. No desire to kill anyone at all. But whenever I see videos of the military on the South side, they're always wearing big black sunglasses like the Terminator, and assuming a martial arts pose when they stand, and their expression is like "Be afraid, be very afraid, I want to kill something so much. Maybe you if the mood strikes." Being on the North side feels a lot safer!

[@gregolino86]

Hi! Just to know where you traveling from North Korea or from south? I will visit Panmunjom in April from South Korea. will I be able to cross the border to walk in the North ?

[@davidflack8531]

Everything in this particular video clip is from the North Korean side as I visited this spot as part of a tour of North Korea, so you won't be able to see or do any of these things from this same particular angle. But you will be in roughly the same spot, just from a slightly different (ie southern) viewpoint. You will enter the central blue building from the South Korean pavilion but then you will walk out in the same direction you came (back to the South, in other words). From the South, you'll have a good shot of the outside of the North Korean pavilion that most of this video clip was shot in.

[@gregolino86]

Well, bether than nothing :-D