North Korea Peace Museum

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North Korea Peace Museum in 1976

North Korean sponsored tour of Angolans after the fall of Angola to Communism

The North Korea Peace Museum is in the building constructed to house the signing of the Korean War Armistice Agreement on 27 July 1953. It is located in the former village of Panmunjeom (P'anmunjŏm) in Gyeonggi province, North Korea.

It is located approximately 500 m. north of the Joint Security Area (JSA), in the northern half of the Demilitarized Zone. The building is all that remains of the former village, and since the mid 1950s, references to Panmunjom actually refer to the Joint Security Area itself.

The weapons used to kill US Army Capt. Bonifas and Lt. Barrett in the Axe Murder Incident of 1976 are also rumored to reside within the Museum. The Museum lies just outside what has become known as "Propaganda Village"; an uninhabited village with electronic timers^{[citation needed]} on the lights in buildings with no glass in the windows and, up till 2004, loudspeakers that broadcast a steady stream of anti-South Korean and anti-American propaganda.