For more news & videos visit ☛http://english.ntdtv.com<br /><br />A South Korean church group lit a huge Christmas tree tower today in an unusual and potentially dangerous place--it's atop of a hill on the border between North and South Korea. Tensions were high with fears that communist North Korea might try to attack it.<br /><br />Amid high military tensions, South Korea lit up a giant Christmas tree on top of a border hill near North Korea on Tuesday.<br /><br />More than 300 South Korean Christians from a church in Seoul gathered near the hill called "Aegibong" to see the tree.<br /><br />It had not been lit up for seven years because of complaints by the North.<br /><br />Dozens of high-profile politicians and local celebrities came to celebrate the launch of the tree. It consists of a 100-foot-high steel tower with about one thousand light bulbs.<br /><br />[Lee Young-hoon, South Korean Church Minister]:<br />"I hope this light would become a light of hope, reconciliation, forgiveness and peace. Ultimately, I hope this light to be the light of unification."<br /><br />The military alert level was at its highest near the ceremony venue, with mounting speculation over a possible attack on the tree by the North.<br /><br />North Korea denounced the ceremony as propaganda warfare.
