Korean War’s 64th Anniversary Commemorated By Rival Nations

Jun 25, 2014 02:24 PM EDT

(Photo : Reuters / Jason Lee) North Koreans holding national flags march during a parade to mark the 60th anniversary of the signing of a truce in the 1950-1953 Korean War at Kim Il-sung Square, in Pyongyang July 27, 2013.

North and South Korea have commemorated the 64^th anniversary of the war that tore the two country's apart and put a wedge between them despite a truce.

On the one hand, residents of North Korea participated in a rally held at the Kim II Sung Square in Pyongyang to give honor to their country's past and present leaders and remember the war with America. South Korea, on the other hand, held a ceremony in Seoul that was also attended by US war veterans, Daily Mail reported.

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The state-run Korean Central News Agency had published an indictment of both the U.S. and South Korea, Net News Ledger said. The indictment released by the National Reunification Institute blamed the Korean war and the disruption of peace on the two said nations.

The indictment said the "U.S. imperialists" went to South Korea to ignite aggression and separate the Korean nation after Japan was defeated in August 1945. It went on to say that the US was preparing to wage war on the DPRK.

Meanwhile, the document described South Korea as a "puppet army" who was provoked by the U.S. into turning against its neighbor. The US then helped "modernize" South Korea's army using new weapons and US$110 million, it said.

The U.S. studied several plans on how to occupy and invade Korea, and managed to turn the United Nations against North Korea by branding it as an "aggressor," the document continued. The war between the "imperialists" and the DPRK went on for three years.

A report by the Associated Press says historians around the world think that it was actually North Korea that triggered the war when it invaded its neighbor.

The war ran from 1950 to 1953 and ended with an armistice instead of a treaty. Technically, that left the Korean peninsula in a state of war.

Until now, thousands of troops still face off along the heavily armed border that divides the two Koreas. Every now and then, the two sides have confrontations both on land and at sea and their government leaders use harsh words to refer to the rival country.

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