Customers at This Starbucks Can Sip Coffee and Observe a Quiet North Korean Village

Customers at This Starbucks Can Sip Coffee and Observe a Quiet North Korean Village
Visitors sit at a newly opened Starbucks store as North Korea's Kaephung county is seen in the background at the observatory of the Aegibong Peace Ecopark in Gimpo, South Korea, on Nov. 29, 2024. Lee Jin-man/AP Photo
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SEOUL, South Korea—Coffee drinkers can sip their beverages and view a quiet North Korean mountain village from a new Starbucks at a South Korean border observatory.

Customers have to pass a military checkpoint before entering the observatory at Aegibong Peace Ecopark, which is less than a mile from North Korean territory and overlooks North Korea’s Songaksan mountain and a nearby village in Kaephung county.