70 years after the war, peace still elusive on Korean Peninsula
(WorldNews South Korea)

Visitors to the presidential office take photos, Sept. 9, 2018, at a special exhibition at Cheong Wa Dae to commemorate the inter-Korean summit a few months earlier on April 27./Courtesy of Cheong Wa Dae By Do Je-hae The 1950-53 Korean War is still very much a factor in the lives of Koreans today, and peace remains an elusive goal as the two Koreas mark the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict. Since then the two Koreas have taken diverging paths, experiencing intermittent closeness during certain periods such as the liberal administrations of former Presidents Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun, and the earlier phase of the Moon Jae-in presidency under an engagement-centric North...