“I need to say first of all that foreigners are wrong in regarding the DMZ as the "Last Frontier of the Cold War" which is sort of separating a failed and anachronistic communist state from a proud high-tech capitalist one.”

—  Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, Interview with the Reuters War College (April 2017)

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