On July 27, 1953, military leaders from the United Nations, North Korea, and China gathered in the border village of Panmunjom to sign the Korean Armistice Agreement. This monumental document effectively halted three years of brutal, destructive combat that had cost millions of lives.
General Mark W. Clark, the Commander-in-Chief of the UN Command, officially signed the agreement, establishing the 2.5-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that still separates North and South Korea today. Crucially, the armistice was only a ceasefire to stop the active fighting, leaving the two nations technically at war to this day.
Photo: General Mark W. Clark signing the armistice document via Wikimedia Commons.
