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- SEL02-19970213-DMZ, REPUBLIC OF KOREA: South Korean army soldiers check barbed-wire entanglements at the border in demilitarized zone (DMZ) near the truce village of Panmunjom dividing the two hostile Koreas 13 February, a day after a top-ranking North Korean sought asylum in the South at Seoul's embassy in Beijing. The asylum bid put the South's border troops on a special vigilance status. - PHOTO AFP/CHOO YOUN-KONG/cyk/mc/ao