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Getting into a war is easy. Getting out of one can be impossible.
Originally published on April 28, 2018
This is Friday and I woke up to find on AOL the good news that North and South Korea had signed the Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification of the Korean Peninsula. One condition in the declaration says that North Korea will become denuclearized. Of course it is much too early to predict just how this might turn out but this sounds to me that this could possibly be a giant step forward on the road to peace and ONE KOREA . Of course all kinds of memories came flashing into my mind about the short time I spent in Korea in 1951 and 1952 as a private in the U.S. Army. I saw first hand the horror and the madness of war.
We were told that we were fighting to make the world safe for Democracy. The cease fire in Korea was in 1953 and it has taken 65 years for the initial step toward a total peace agreement.
Just think, we can get into a war by the firing of one cannon, or rifle, or torpedo or missile to lead to a Declaration of War that could take 65 years, as this has, for real progress on a Declaration of Peace.
Getting into a war is easy. Getting out of one can be impossible.
I began praying for peace in Korea in 1951 and at that time the United Nations was beginning discussions with North Korea on a cease fire. A formal end to the war will involve more than just the Koreans. Both China and the US, under the flag of the United Nations, were massively involved in the conflict, and would have to be signatories to an eventual peace treaty. It is possible that my prayers will be answered. We’ll see.
Recommended Reading
The Korean War: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence and secret materials from both here and abroad, including an archive of captured North Korean documents, Bruce Cumings reveals the war as it was actually fought. He describes its origin as a civil war, preordained long before the first shots were fired in June 1950 by lingering fury over Japan’s occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945. Cumings then shares the neglected history of America’s post–World War II occupation of Korea, reveals untold stories of bloody insurgencies and rebellions, and tells of the United States officially entering the action on the side of the South, exposing as never before the appalling massacres and atrocities committed on all sides.
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