World's friendliest/most hostile int'l border

[minionofmidas]

What ag said. US-Mexico is by all accounts a pretty much par for the course border. Now, the only way you notice the German-Belgian border passing on the train is that the electricity poles suddenly look different. No sign, no nothing. I mean, even at the Scottish-English border there's a small sign marking the border crossing.
The bit about the Chinese-North Korean border by KillerPollo is wrong. That border is "open" only by comparison with the North Korean-South Korean one. It's probably harder to cross than the US-MExican one. (But thousands of N Koreans slip through every year anyways. Lots of illegal N Korean immigrants in Manchuria.)

[minionofmidas]

Isn't Norway in the Schengen accord anyways? I seem to recall it was that or no Scandinavia inside Schengen or cancellation of the much older Scandinavian Free Borders accord, whatever it was called.

[minionofmidas]

No sign, no nothing. I mean, even at the Scottish-English border there's a small sign marking the border crossing.

same at pretty much every US states' borders.

The bit about the Chinese-North Korean border by KillerPollo is wrong. That border is "open" only by comparison with the North Korean-South Korean one. It's probably harder to cross than the US-MExican one. (But thousands of N Koreans slip through every year anyways. Lots of illegal N Korean immigrants in Manchuria.)

I heard the usual route for defectors is to China, then to Japan, then to South Korea.

Which I completely support. ANYTHING to get out of there.

Actually, the usual route out is to China, then dig a cave to live in, then find work as a dishwasher in a restaurant.