Introduction The armistice signed on July 27, 1953 halted the Korean War’s open hostilities but cemented a division of the peninsula that persists to this day . In the aftermath, North and South Korea embarked on starkly divergent trajectories – politically, economically, and socially – yet their fates remained deeply intertwined. Over the ensuing decades, … Continue reading Parallel Paths: The Two Koreas from 1953 to the Present