It’s clear from the past week that the Korean War continues—and not just in a figurative sense, with North Korea’s paranoid regime striking out from the peninsula at a perceived slight from Hollywood. The war, which spanned three years in the 1950s, also persists in a technical sense: For the past 60 years, Korea has lived under a cease-fire, not a peace settlement. Come Christmas, when, 64 years ago, hundreds of thousands of young men slogged through the snow and ice of northern Korea in what would become the most dramatic month of the war, it’s worth taking stock of the costs of the cease-fire and what it has brought us.
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