`Peace Village,` a fake city just outside the DMZ, serves as metaphor for North Korean athletes at the Olympics
(LA Times Television)

From their hilltop checkpoint, the soldiers who guard South Korea´s border can see for miles across the Demilitarized Zone, to a small city in the distance on the north side. This tidy collection of high-rises and low-slung buildings is surrounded by agricultural fields. North Koreans call the...