Pathos of Peace Protest in South Korea Arises From Its Naivete

North Korea wants the end of the war to be declared before it’s over.

Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP
The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, April 25, 2022. Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP

IMJINGAK, South Korea — The shattered hulk of a steam locomotive that was caught in an artillery barrage rests on rusting tracks here in mute testimony to the battles that raged south of the 38th parallel dividing North Korea from South Korea after the communist invasion of the South in June 1950.

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