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. Why Truce And Not Peace?

NPR
Published April 15, 1996 at 11:00 PM CDT

NPR's Ted Clark looks at the history of the armistice in Korea, and why 43 years ago North and South Korea would not agree to peace. In 1953, the South Koreans objected to peace, but today it is the North that is balking.

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