July 27, 1953: The End

It’s finally over. After so many deaths and so much destruction, a cease-fire has been signed. Technically, this doesn’t mean an end to the war between North and South Korea, but we’ll take whatever we can get at this point. At the end, 53,000 ROK and UN troops have been killed, including over 8,000 Americans, but the sad part is more than half of them were killed AFTER peace talks had begun (Evanhoe). A large amount of MIA’s and casualties came from North Korean concentration camps used to contain the POWs, with a large amount of those deaths suspected to be murders. At lease now the press can’t give us any new grief about goings on in the war, and I can go home to my family.