Tagged: War

North Korea DMZ.

A Visit to the North Korea DMZ – Part 5

North Korea DMZ Demilitarized Zone, DPRK. * (For the previous part, click here: (Barely) Backpacking North Korea – Part 4) [su_note note_color=”#b0b1bb” text_color=”#030303″ radius=”6″]Now, as I said in the first article on the day I arrived, I was just taking in everything from Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at face value of what I was told and shown.  I went to see how North Korea views the world.  And I went to look at the DPRK ‘presentation’ and decided to...

Vimy Ridge – Photos and Facts of the Battlefield

Vimy Ridge – Photos and Facts of the Battlefield

Vimy Ridge in France is where the Canadian Corps won in a battle against the German Sixth Army on the 12th of April 1917 of the First World War.  The ridge had been under German control since October 1914.  Our guide Grégory, a man who possibly knows more about war history than any other human alive, broke down the events that took place and explained the battle to us.  I am not much of a nationalist, but I felt a...