North Korea and South Korea will meet in the 'truce village' of Panmunjom — these extraordinary photos show what it's like

A South Korean soldier patrols the road connecting the two Koreas at the Unification Bridge.

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On Friday, the leaders of North Korea and South Korea will meet for their highest-level talks in over a decade.

They will met in Panmunjom, the site of the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement in 1953 that's known as the "truce village."

Since then, Panmunjom has become the only part of the demilitarized zone where soldiers from the two Koreas face one another every day, and where foreign dignitaries come to peer into North Korea for themselves.

But life in Panmunjom and the surrounding villages is remarkably ordinary. People shop, kids attend schools, and farmers till the fields — though mostly with a backdrop of high tensions and a military presence.

There's also a thriving tourist scene. According to PRI, visitors must sign a form that says they understand it "will entail entry into a hostile area and the possibility of injury or death."

Here's what the "truce village" is like.

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