Barack Obama Visits Korean Demilitarised Zone

As nuclear tensions with North Korea simmer, President Barack Obama has told US troops guarding the border with the South they are protecting "freedom's frontier".

Mr Obama made the comments during his first visit to the Demilitarised Zone - or DMZ - the most heavily militarised border in the world.

The president told American troops at Camp Bonifas, on the edge of the DMZ, "the contrast between South Korea and North Korea could not be clearer, could not be starker".

The US leader then visited an observation post just 100 metres from the South's demarcation line with the Communist North - an area carpeted in land mines and marked by razor wire.

Mr Obama's visit to the 38th Parallel comes at a time of increased fears over North Korea's nuclear programme. Read More