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South Korea drops North Korean city names from signs on border highway

Pyongyang and Kaesong replaced by Panmunjom on signage north of Seoul, likely due to poor inter-Korean ties

South Korean authorities have removed the names of North Korean cities from several highway signs on the so-called Freedom Road leading to the demilitarized zone, NK News has confirmed, likely reflecting the poor state of inter-Korean ties.

Pyongyang and Kaesong were no longer listed on the green highway signs on National Route 77, northwest of Seoul, on Dec. 25, replaced by the name of Panmunjom in the Joint Security Area.

The signs had included direction markers to the North Korean cities since at least 2008, open-source imagerysuggests. It’s unclear exactly when the removal took place, but a timeline of