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To go with SKOREA-MILITARY-LANDMINE by Jung Ha-Won In a photo taken on March 17, 2015, Kim Ki-Ho, head of the Korea Research Institute for Mine Clearance, prays prior to a meal at a restaurant near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Yeoncheon, north of Seoul. After decades of official silence, South Korea is beginning to compensate hundreds of landmine victims maimed by a deadly, and dangerously enduring legacy of the Korean War and its Cold War aftermath. Dwarfed in numerical terms by countries like Laos and Cambodia where landmines kill or injure hundreds each year, South Korean victims have largely been left to suffer in unrecognised isolation. AFP PHOTO / Ed Jones (Photo credit should read ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)