Morning about the wars causes and about sort of how the three years that most americans think of when they think of the korean war fit into a longer and a broader history. For our second part, well try to focus in a little bit on how the war played out in the lives of the individuals that were affected by it. As war in south and north korea, it ravaged the homes of millions, sometimes more than once. And we were talking about the yo yo effect of the war means war moves through your home once and then then again. It drew 6 million military personnel, not only from both north and south korea, but also from china, the United States, the soviet union and other United Nations countries, including britain, canada, australia, france, the netherlands and many others. More than two and a half Million People lost their lives, and millions more found their lives forever changed by the war. So im honored to introduce four historians whose work centers, individuals in their in the history of war an
Time. I really appreciate the way that weve sort of expanded and the lens here. So were focused in in the ways that the individual experience is so nuanced and complicated and affected by by so many decisions that other folks make. So thank you. Again, lets take our panelists. Weve called this years symposium korea the first forever war as a way to focus our attention, the wars lasting legacies. And so in our third and final panel of the day well think about the ways that the war continues to shape world geopolitics military thinking and families. And one of the things that people probably know about the korean war is that it never officially ended hostilities terminated and an armistice signed in 1953 by north korea. The states and china significantly, not by south korea. That armistice made permanent what had been a temporary divide between, north and south korea, and it left an unstable truce in its place. And in the 70 years since, millions of people who through and fought that war
We spent some time talking this morning about the wars causes and about sort of how the three years that most americans think of when they think of the korean war fit into a longer and a broader history. For our second part, well try to focus in a little bit on how the war played out in the lives of the individuals that were affected by it. As war in south and north korea, it ravaged the homes of millions, sometimes more than once. And we were talking about the yo yo effect of the war means war moves through your home once and then then again. It drew 6 million military personnel, not only from both north and south korea, but also from china, the United States, the soviet union and other United Nations countries, including britain, canada, australia, france, the netherlands and many others. More than two and a half Million People lost their lives, and millions more found their lives forever changed by the war. So im honored to introduce four historians whose work centers, individuals i
Of this is all in the perspective. So i want to be mindful of our time. I really appreciate the way that weve sort of expanded and the lens here. So were focused in in the ways that the individual experience is so nuanced and complicated and affected by by so many decisions that other folks make. So thank you. Again, lets take our panelists. Weve called this years symposium korea the first forever war as a way to focus our attention, the wars lasting legacies. And so in our third and final panel of the day well think about the ways that the war continues to shape world geopolitics military thinking and families. And one of the things that people probably know about the korean war is that it never officially ended hostilities terminated and an armistice signed in 1953 by north korea. The states and china significantly, not by south korea. That armistice made permanent what had been a temporary divide between, north and south korea, and it left an unstable truce in its place. And in the
So thank you. Again, lets take our panelists. Weve called this years symposium korea the first forever war as a way to focus our attention, the wars lasting legacies. And so in our third and final panel of the day well think about the ways that the war continues to shape world geopolitics military thinking and families. And one of the things that people probably know about the korean war is that it never officially ended hostilities terminated and an armistice signed in 1953 by north korea. The states and china significantly, not by south korea. That armistice made permanent what had been a temporary divide between, north and south korea, and it left an unstable truce in its place. And in the 70 years since, millions of people who through and fought that war have attempted come to terms with it. And while nations have also attempted to deal with the legacies of war left and our panelists here have left or bring wealth of scholarly and practice experience to our discussion of the wars w