About the Author
Fyodor Tertitskiy
Fyodor Tertitskiy is a leading researcher at Seoul's Kookmin University. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Seoul National University, and is author of "North Korea before Kim Il Sung," which you can buy here.
It has been 67 years since the Korean War reached an effective stalemate through the July 27, 1953 armistice agreement. To this day, historians and others look back at the bloody conflict and claim that it ended exactly where it started, with nothing achieved by either side.
In some senses, this is true: Before and after the war, the Korean peninsula was divided into the capitalist South and communist North, shattering the unification dreams of both Seoul and Pyongyang.