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(1 May 2008) SHOTLIST DMZ, April 2008 1. North Korean soldiers checking the South Korean side with binoculars 2. Close up, tilt down of South Korean 3. Wide of the DMZ 4. Zoom in to South Korean soldiers on watch 5. US, South Korea, United Nations flag 6. Wide of North Korea from the DMZ 7. Various South Korean soldiers with fire arms 8. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Choi Sung-wook, Joint Security Area (JSA) soldier: "All JSA soldiers at this compound should have at least 1st degree. We have exams every 3 months to upgrade our degree in taekwondo. We must give a 100 percent and train very hard to achieve the degree we are aiming for. Instructors and soldiers at this compound work as one and work very hard." 9. Various of soldiers in the gym practicing taekwondo 10. Soldiers sparring Daebul University, Near the DMZ border, South Korea, April 2008 11. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Sang-geon, coach at the high school taekwondo club at Daebul University: "This school is unique in a way that taekwondo is a required course for the entire student body. For the ones that want intensive training, they will join the special class for higher levels of taekwondo training." 12. Highschool students practising moves 13. Student taking flying leap in the air on tiles 14. Student back-flipping and kicking tile 15. Students dancing and doing taekwondo moves STORYLINE At the Demilitarised Zone separating the two Koreas, South Korean soldiers are not just armed with machine guns. Along with being one of the world's longest-simmering hotspots, this is taekwondo country. As land mines pepper the forests on either side of the demarcation line, machine guns are hidden in the shadows: take all the weapons away, and these soldiers are still heavily armed. There has been something of a detente at the DMZ in recent years. No longer does the North blast propaganda at the South, and the South has stopped blasting rock music back. Psy-ops leaflets no longer waft in the wind, and the contingent of US Army soldiers deployed to supervise the peace at the UN-run JSA has shrunk from hundreds to fewer than 40. But to the South Koreans, that is no excuse for complacency. In Patriot's Hall, a small carpeted training room on this border outpost, Choi Sung-wook and his fellow soldiers put away the shiny black helmets and aviator sunglasses they wear for guard duty and don their other uniforms, the white ones, and face off. Choi said all soldiers assigned to the JSA unit must test for black belt if they don't already have one by the time they get here. Training is done on duty and off, with many soldiers putting in several hours a day. They have hard exams every 3 months to bring up their degree. "We must give a 100 percent and train very hard to achieve the degree we are aiming for. Instructors and soldiers at this compound work as one and work very hard." Their motto: "Let's Be Patriots in Front of Them All." Taekwondo is more than just a way to train troops, however. North and South, it is the pride of Korea. Not far from the DMZ, Kim Sang-geon coaches the high school taekwondo club at Daebul University. The school, on a hill surrounded by rice paddies and budding urban sprawl, is about a 15-minute ride from the border. As the afternoon sun begins to set, shrieks pierce the air. There is cracking, and the sound of feet stomping in unison. For a small group of visiting dignitaries, about 50 students go through a 30-minute routine in the gymnasium. As pop music echoes throughout the gym, they do back flips and howl and slice through boards and roofing tiles like they were hot butter. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...