"We have approval from both governments to cross the DMZ, but we don't know precisely where", she said.
The group of 30 women, including leading rights activist Gloria Steinem and nobel laureates Leymah Gbowe and Mairead Maguire, plan to cross from North Korea to South Korea at the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ).
It is thought that three-quarters of North Korea's 1.1m troops are stationed within 60 miles (100km) of the DMZ, with reportedly 10,000 artillery pieces capable of hitting Seoul.
There are already calls for the DMZ to be turned into a park in the event of reunification.The Chagos Islands of the Indian Ocean are a military zone, too.
They will then head along the demilitarised zone (the DMZ, as they call it) to take a distant look at outposts such as "T-Bone Hill" and "Alligator Jaws", where their comrades died under Chinese and North Korean fire.
As agriculture and industrialisation have moved ahead elsewhere, the thousand-square-kilometre DMZ, uninhabited and heavily mined, has been a refuge for two endangered birds: the white-naped and the red-crowned crane.
The state news agency, KCNA, issued daily reports emphasising what is a pattern of the propaganda: that the regime's belligerence is in response to dire threats from outside, such as the deployment of American B-2 stealth bombers and F-22 fighters as part of joint exercises by American and South Korean armed forces south of the heavily fortified demilitarised zone (DMZ).
Located within the DMZ is the "truce village" of P'anmunjŏm, about 5 miles (8 km) east of Kaesŏng.
Along the DMZ separating North and South Vietnam, the Americans established a string of fortified bases extending from just north of Quang Tri on the South China Sea westward to the Laotian border.
That same day the shooting stopped (more or less), and the armies began the awkward process of disengagement across what became a 4-km- (2.5-mile) wide DMZ.
The UNC accepted that there would be no verification activities outside of the DMZ, and both sides agreed to work on a regime for enforcement of the armistice after the shooting stopped.
