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For the first time in decades, the village of the 1953 truce between North Korea and South Korea will be free of weapons by Saturday.
The two Koreas agreed last month to remove weapons from Panmunjom, officially known as the Common Security Zone.
Armed soldiers from the North and the United Nations-led United Nations Command have been looking across the border since the 1953 Armistice, which ended the fighting in Korea.
As soon as North and South Korean defense officials and US experts verify that the village is now free of weapons, 35 unarmed guards patrol the passage and visitors and tourists will again have "freedom of movement ".
Panmunjom was a neutral zone, where visitors could roam freely until 1976, when North Korean forces opened fire on a task force shooting down a tree, killing two US soldiers.
Both sides completed removing the mines from the joint security zone last week.
North Korea and South Korea are still technically at war. A peace treaty has never been signed, only an armistice.
But talks between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have strengthened ties and strengthened cooperation.
