DMZ Tour as seen from North Korea

The "Mass Gymnastic and Artistic Performance" group of the 2002 'Arirang Festival' was allowed a rare visit to North Korea, rare because among the groups members were several Americans.  Scott Fisher was one of those Americans, who upon returning posted his travels on a website at http://1stopkorea.com/index.htm?nk-trip6-dmz.htm~mainframe, very interesting reading and good photo's.  Here are several very rare views from that site from the north's perspective.

Two DPRK MP's standing guard in from of Bldg T2's door existing to South Korea, a VERY unusual site!

I've seen the North Korean soldiers peering thru the windows, but here's a look from the flipside

This guard standing in the center is there to keep anyone from making a quick dash across the line to defect

South Korea Freedom House from a very unique vantage point, the North.

One of the comments made from within the above links' article mentions the Panmungak Pavilion is a "fake building", or at least that's what the writer had been told [or understood] from the US Army's JSA MP guide.  He says "the first time I took the DMZ tour from the South, and on some tours since, the US soldier leading the tour would tell everyone we weren't looking at a real building.  Instead the North's building was "a facade designed to look large and impressive, but is in reality only a frame a few feet (one meter) thick."  The writer either misunderstood the comment, or the MP commented incorrectly, because it is known not to be a "fake" building, but rather a building "misleading" in size.  Not sure where the 1 meter size reference came from, but it is in fact a building not as deep as it is wide, and not as large as an aerial view shows, which is to say it does not have a footprint of a big square building.  It is in fact more of a "U" shaped building with a type of courtyard on the other side of the front entrance, yet the roof of the building does cover the entire shape making it look like a big square building from above.

As for the rooms inside, we know there are several visitor waiting rooms as well as the security guard post office directly behind where you see this guard standing, however, it the entire building is not occupied, much the same as the Freedom House on the south side is not completely occupied.