1) The border between North and South Korea is 238 kilometers long.
2) The border is dangerous due to the presence of landmines, barbed wire, and military patrols.
3) North Korea is the size of Vermont with 25 million people.
4) Kim Jong Il is the leader of North Korea.
5) North Korea is known as the Hermit Kingdom because of its extreme isolationism.
6) Thousands of people in North Korea go blind due to a lack of medical care and malnutrition.
7) Dr. Ruit will do 100 eye surgeries in just 5 days in North Korea.
8) Normally, foreigners are not welcome in North Korea.
9) Only government officials and their families get to live in the city of Pyongyang.
10) Kim Jong Il allowed Dr. Ruit to come to North Korea because he wanted to improve the country's image and gain international goodwill.
11) The author of all the books they are allowed to see in the hotel is Kim Il Sung.
12) Many nice buildings were built in some of the towns but remain vacant today because they were built for a planned population that never arrived.
13) One of the North Korean minders wanted to kick the camera crew out of North Korea because they were filming without permission.
14) Kim Il Sung invaded South Korea in 1950 to unify the country under communist rule.
15) Approximately 2.5 million people died during the Korean War.
16) Korea is divided at the 38th parallel.
17) 25 invasion tunnels have been found that North Korea has dug into South Korea.
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