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United Nations representative US Lieutenant General William Harrison Jr (L), Korean General Nam Il of the People’s Army of Korea (C) and Chinese Marshal Peng Dehuai of the People’s Liberation Army of China (R) sign the armistice of the Korean War July 27, 1953 in Panmunjon, located on the North Korean side of the demilitarized zone (DMZ). The Panmunjeom armistice was signed on July 27, 1953 between North Korea and China on the one hand, and the United Nations on the other. – The Korean War between North Korea and South Korea began on June 25, 1950 when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. The war ended with an armistice on July 27, 1953. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)The Korean Armistice Agreement was signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting on the Korean peninsula that killed an estimated 4 million people.
Originally published at Associated Press