The baseball fans squeezed onto an early morning bus, bound for a place that some tour companies say is dangerous, some say is somber, and all agree has a surprising amount of gift shops.
They were headed, about 150 of them, for the demilitarized zone: the narrow buffer strip between North and South Korea that is heavily guarded by concertina wire and rifle-toting soldiers. And they were clad in Dodgers blue. They were the Dodgers faithful — the team’s most rabid fans, traveling with fan group Pantone 294, named, of course, after the team’s official hue of blue.
He gave a quick history of the Korean War and told everyone, multiple times, they would be in a heavily militarized zone but, hey, enjoy yourselves. Outside Imjingak — a former battlefield, where a park was built to comfort refugees whose families were stuck behind the North Korean border — Dodgers fans shopped at souvenir stands selling DMZ shirts, soldier figurines and North Korean “compound alcohol.
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