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
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
Usually 2 to 3 times worse for their enemies who arent as well supplied, who arent well uniformed and and so, you know, its all at all in the like anything of this whole the point 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 signi
Cococould rejoice. Host welcome back. The korean war armistice was signed in july 27, 1933 and here to reflect on that event is Gregg Brazinsky. Professor of history of International Affairs at George Washington university. Welcome to the program. Guest thank you for having me. Host lets start with when the korean war began. When did it start and the events that led up to it . Guest to understand the origins of the korea war you have to look at korea during the period between 1910 and 1945 when it was under japanese colonialism. The reason you have to look at that period is because japanese colonialism created very deep social and political divisions between koreans because there were many koreans who suffered in a lot of different ways under japanese colonialism, but there were also some koreans who benefited in different ways. When world war ii inns in 1945, korea ends in 1945, korea is a very Different Society and even if you take out china, u. S. , and the soviet union, it is likel