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Romania, and the United Kingdom—require travelers
from other EU states to present a passport or ID card at
the border.
guards. Citizens of most countries must have a passport
and official permission to enter the borders of North
Korea. North Koreans must also have official permission
before they leave their secretive nation.
Every country has its own rules about who may travel,
work, and reside within its borders. Visas and work permits
are government documents issued to non-citizens
that limit the type of work or travel they may do in the
country, and for how long.
Border between the Netherlands and Belgium: two neighboring
countries have open borders. The line becomes an artistic
installation fictively separating their identities.
On the opposite extreme, the Korean Demilitarized
Zone—the border between communist North Korea and
capitalist South Korea—is the most heavily militarized
border in the world. The zone, which is 4 kilometers
wide and 243 kilometers long, separates the two countries
with barbed-wire fences, land mines, and armed
Closing borders for people fleeing conflicts or natural
disasters contributes to creating places of congestion
in front of the erected walls, fences or checkpoints, in
many instances resulting in humanitarian crisis. The
crowded conditions lead to shortages of food, shelter,
water and sanitation.
Left stranded without seeing a way to move forward,
refugees are forced to find other ways of overcoming this
obstacle: sometimes that means taking another route
and often walking for weeks or hiring a smuggler.
Border Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)
and the Republic of Korea (South Korea): Demilitarized zone.