In Popular Culture
The bridge is also portrayed in the beginning of the James Bond film, Die Another Day, where the characters Bond and Zao are swapped (though with rows of concertina wire, bunkers, machine guns, or spotlights not present at the real bridge). It was portrayed in the South Korean movie Joint Security Area, where the shooting of two North Korean guards becomes the focus of an investigation and of the movie, and the American movie Salt, when agent Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is traded for a captured North Korean official after being held captive in North Korea.
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