ABSTRACT
In this chapter, by refuting eco-utopian propositions and discourses such as those proposed by Alan Weisman and others, I offer critical examinations of the political rhetoric of peace and the utopian representations of the Korean DMZ that politicians, conservationists, and literary works have shown in recent DMZ discourses in South Korea. I argue that in an ironic twist, the political, conservationist, and literary representations of the DMZ and its ecologies as peaceful or eco-utopian have become by themselves another DMZ-like trope of deficiencies and desires that are waiting to be further decoded.
