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Panmunjom Flagpole
| Status: | built | | Construction Dates | | Finished | 2009 |
|  | | Building Uses | | - monument | | Structural Types | | - truss tower | | - flag | | Materials | | - steel |
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| | Heights | | Value | | Source / Comments | | | | Spire | | 525 ft | | | | | | | |
Description
• In the 1980s the South Korean government built a 98.4 m tall pole with flag of South Korea in Daeseong-dong. The North Korean government responded by building a taller one, 160 m tall the Panmunjom flagpole http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=43430 with flag of North Korea only 1.2 km west of the border with South Korea, in what some have called the "flagpole war".
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