This is the second of a two-part article on the international women's walk for peace and the reunification of Korea. Read part one
The Korean War Armistice Agreement in 1953 temporarily halted the Korean War. It has never been replaced with a peace treaty.
“Contrary to conventional understanding, the armistice has not been an instrument of maintaining an uneasy peace,” says Rutgers University Korea history professor Suzy Kim. “In fact, it has been repeatedly violated, by both sides, most egregiously by the introduction of atomic weapons into South Korea in 1958 by the United States, violating Article 2 Paragraph 13d of the armistice which stipulated that no new weapons be introduced into the peninsula.” Suzy argues that the “current tensions and military buildup, including North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, have been the result of the armistice, a temporary military cease-fire that saw the need for a political settlement to achieve peace in Korea, and stipulated exactly that.”
