My Way News - Korea, war without end, casts a long shadow
My Way News reports: "The war without end began that long-ago Sunday when North Korea invaded the south to try to reunify the nation, a liberated Japanese colony sliced in two in 1945 by the U.S. and Soviet victors of World War II. At first, the invaders almost drove a weak South Korean-U.S. force off the peninsula, but U.S. reinforcements poured in, rolled back the northerners and drove deep into North Korea. Then, in late 1950, communist China stepped in, its massed divisions throwing the Americans and South Koreans back to the peninsula's midsection, where the two sides waged a costly seesaw war over bits of ground for two years, ending with a stalemate, a July 1953 armistice - not a peace, but a war on hold."

Comment: The demilitarized zone between North and South Korea is still the most dangerous tripwire in the world, a place where one misstep would mean automatic war for three countries (North and South Korea and the United States) and a dangerous moment of decision for neighboring countries like China and Russia.