Female activists including Gloria Steinem on Sunday were denied an attempt to walk across the Demilitarized Zone dividing North and South Korea, but were allowed to cross by bus and complete what one of them called a landmark peace event. The group of 30 women from 15 countries made a final appeal to authorities on both sides to allow them to walk across the demarcation line, but were turned down. The North allowed a South Korean bus to cross the most heavily fortified border in the world to pick them up on the North side of the DMZ and transport them over the border to South Korea."We were able to be citizen diplomats," said Steinem, the 81-year-old feminism pioneer and author.
