Golf Drives Out Military Base in North Korea (enticing S. Koreans over)

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MOUNT KUMGANG, North Korea (Reuters) - In a variation on the swords-to-plowshares theme, North Korea is swapping heavy artillery for golf clubs.

This is not the communist state's latest secret weapon nor a disarmament gesture. It's a new scheme to attract golf-crazy South Koreans to an enclave in the North just across the Demilitarized Zone border.
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Players of the quintessentially capitalist sport will walk where a communist military base once stood, its heavy artillery pointed at the South. But the only bunkers will be those filled with sand to trap wayward golfers.
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"We are looking at the bigger perspective of cooperation between North and South Korea and we want to play a role," Lee told Reuters at the groundbreaking for the course.
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