Can birds help connect North Korea to the world?
BAEKRYEONG ISLAND, South Korea - A pair of red-rumped swallows circled overhead, dancing amid wispy clouds before disappearing. A young male Chinese sparrowhawk emerged before he too became a shrinking dot in the blue sky.
From Baekryeong, South Korea's northernmost island, Nial Moores tracked the birds through his scope.
"They'll be in the DPRK in 15, 20 minutes," he said.
That would be the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or North Korea - across one of the most heavily fortified borders in the world.
Guarded by hundreds of thousands of soldiers and untold artillery, the border means little to the millions of birds that soar over it each year as they travel along a major migration corridor between the Arctic Circle and East and Southeast Asia, and as far south as Australia and New Zealand.
Moores, a 56-year-old British conservation
