Conversations in Conflict Studies Series presents: Jongwoo Han

“Ending the 60-Year Old Korean War: A Petition to the United Nations.” The Korean War began June 25, 1950 and ended July 27, 1953; however, a state of war persists on the Korean Peninsula to this day. In the modern history of human civilization, no war has ever lasted more than half century after an official ceasefire. As a Korean proverb says, “The one who has tied a knot must untie it.” It is time to begin a transition from six decades of hostility to final closure and peace on the 60th anniversary of the Armistice Agreement. Jongwoo Han, Ph.D. Assistant Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University