Members of a military honour guard hold the flags of participating nations during a ceremony of U.N. Forces Participation Day event marking the 67th Anniversary of the Korean War armistice agreement, in Seoul, South Korea, on July 27, 2020. Chung Sung-jun/Getty Images
The Korean War Armistice agreement was signed July 27, 1953—70 years ago this month.
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Austin Bay is a colonel (ret.) in the U.S. Army Reserve, author, syndicated columnist, and teacher of strategy and strategic theory at the University of Texas–Austin. His latest book is “Cocktails from Hell: Five Wars Shaping the 21st Century.”