Panmunjom

Not to be confused with the Joint Security Area, also known informally as Panmunjom.

Panmunjom Panmunjeom
The original truce building in 1976, after it became the DPRK Peace Museum
Panmunjom Location within South Korea
Coordinates: 37°57′36″N 126°39′54″E
Country before the Korean War	First Republic of Korea
Modern countries	North Korea South Korea
Special city	Kaesong
Ward	Panmun-guyok
Province	Gyeonggi
City	Paju
Korean name
Hangul	판문점
Hanja	板門店
RR	Panmunjeom
MR	P'anmunjŏm

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Panmunjom (Korean: 판문점; also spelled Panmunjeom) was a village just north of the de facto border between North Korea and South Korea, where the 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement that ended the Korean War was signed. It was located in what is now Paju, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, and Panmun-guyok, Kaesong, North Korea. The building where the armistice was signed still stands.

Its name is often used as a metonym for the nearby Joint Security Area (JSA), where discussions between North Korea and South Korea still take place in blue buildings that straddle the Military Demarcation Line. As such, it is considered one of the last vestiges of the Cold War.