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Tanks, guns and ‘dragon’s teeth’ guard S Korea frontier island
BAEKRYEONG: It is South Korea's westernmost territory, soldiers outnumber residents, and you can see North Korea from almost every barbed wire-lined beach: welcome to Baekryeong Island, a community on the front line.Far closer to the North Korean mainland than it is to the South, Baekryeong is a fortress: tanks are parked at the sides of roads, there are guard posts on every hill, and the picturesque beaches are covered in dragon's teeth -- concrete pyramid-shaped fortifications -- to deter invasion.Seoul was awarded control over the approximately 45-square-kilometre (17-square-mile) island at the end of Korean War hostilities in the 1950s, but its 5,000 or so residents -- plus an even highe

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