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United Nations Command (UNC) checkpoint #3 (now closed).

Formerly known as "The Loneliest Outpost in the World" due to it's extreme proximity to the border, it's poor visibility to other UN outposts due to surrounding trees (including the Axe Murder Incident tree), the presence of KPA outposts further back within the JSF (able to block any rescue force) and numerous attempts to infiltrate across at night to kidnap the occupants and drag them across the Bridge of No Return into North Korea (presumably for interrogation purposes or simply just to intimidate the UN troops).

It was closed in 1978 after the Axe Murder Incident resulted in the UN insisting on the enforcement of the MDL within the JSF, which meant the North Koreans no longer had a legal point of entry into the JSF. For uncertain reasons (given they had never felt obligated to obey such rules before), they immediately abandoned the Bridge of No Return and built a new bridge (the so-called "72-hour Bridge") in just 3 days in their own territory to the north, and also abandoned both of the southern checkpoints that approached the bridge. The UN responded by putting up concrete bollards to prevent the bridge from ever being used for vehicles again.

Since the UN forces no longer had to monitor the bridge, they gratefully abandoned the post.