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This sand pile and fence are the only boundary line between the swimming beach and the military zone. <\/p>\n<p>This mound, a thin line between life and death, is not so high or steep that tourists cannot cross it. <\/p>\n<p>Some note that the incident happened because Hyundai Asan did not extend the fence to the coast. <\/p>\n<p>A sign, \u201cNo Entry,\u201d is set 100 meters away from the coast and there are no signs around the sand mound that Ms. Park crossed.<\/p>\n<p>A witness to the gunshot incident, Lee Ihn Bok, said that \u201cAt daybreak on the 11th, I saw a woman in black in her fifties, walking behind the mound in a northerly direction. Around five minutes  or so later, I heard two gunshots with around a ten second interval and a scream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI approached and went up on the sand mound to see what had happened; I saw a person lying on the ground and then three soldiers ran out from a wood some 300 meters away. They touched the person with their feet to check if she was alive,\u201d he said.   <\/p>\n<p>According to Yonhap News, photos show a CCTV camera around the boundary line in the military zone. Additionally, an affiliate of Hyundai Asan also confirmed that CCTV is set up 100 meter from the coast, facing towards the southern beach.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, there is a single witness\u2019 testimony to the incident and North Korea refuses the Southern government\u2019s demands to investigate on-site. <\/p>\n<p>[imText2]<br \/>\n[imText3]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[imText1]Hyundai Asan has released photos of fences and a sand mound over which the late Park Wang Ja was supposed to have crossed at dawn of June 11. 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