This year marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, a foundational conflict that pitted the U.S. and South Korea against China and North Korea. And decades later, it’s clear that the combatant nations only selectively remember what’s become aptly known as the Forgotten War.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s recent remarks to the U.S. Congress provide a representative example of this phenomenon. In his speech, Yoon highlighted the signing of the Mutual Defense Treaty that established the U.S.-ROK alliance in 1953 but made no mention of the