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ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ 2๊ธฐ ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์ถœ๋ฒ”ํ•œ๋‹ค

๋ฉด ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ผ๋ณธ ๋“ฑ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ํ•ต์šฐ์‚ฐ

์— ์˜์กดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋“ค์ด ๋…์ž ํ•ต๋ฌด

์žฅ์— ๋‚˜์„ค ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋†’๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ถ„์„

์ด ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ œ๊ธฐ๋๋‹ค.

๊ตญ์ œ ์•ˆ๋ณดยท์™ธ๊ต์ „๋žต ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€

์ธ ์ผ€์ดํ‹€๋ฆฐ ํƒˆ๋งˆ์ง€ ๋ธŒ๋ฃจํ‚น์Šค์—ฐ๊ตฌ

์†Œ ์„ ์ž„ ํŽ ๋กœ๋Š” 8์ผ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ ํ™ˆํŽ˜์ด

์ง€ ๊ธฐ๊ณ ๋ฌธ์—์„œโ€œ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๋™๋งน๊ด€๊ณ„

์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ์ „ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น ์˜ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ๊นŠ์€ ํ˜์˜ค๊ฐ€ ํ•ตํ™•์‚ฐ์„ ๋ถ€ ๋ฅด๋Š” ์š”์ธ์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒโ€์ด๋ผ๋ฉฐ ์ด๊ฐ™์ด ์ „๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ฐ๋ฐฉ์ƒ์›์— ๋„์ „ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ํ•œ

๋•๊ธฐ

์œ„ํ•œ ํ•œ์ธํ›„์›ํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฐ์„ฑ๋œ๋‹ค.

์œ ์žฌ์‹, Tim Haas, ๋ฐ์ด๋น— ํ•˜,

ํ…Œ๋ Œ์Šค ๋ฐ• ์”จ ๋“ฑ์€ 9์ผ ๋‰ด์ €์ง€ ํ† 

ํŠธ๋ฆฌ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์˜ค์ด์†ŒBBQ ์‹๋‹น์—

์„œ ๋ชจ์ž„์„ ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ํ›„์›ํšŒ ์ค€๋น„์œ„์›

ํšŒ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์„ฑํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ์ „ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ๋‹น์„ ํ•œ๋‹ค ๋ฉด ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ผ๋ณธ, ๋ถ๋Œ€์„œ์–‘์กฐ์•ฝ๊ธฐ ๊ตฌ(NATOยท๋‚˜ํ† ) ์ผ๋ถ€ ํšŒ์›๊ตญ ๋“ฑ ๋…์ž ํ•ต๋ฌด์žฅ์˜ ๊ธธ์„ ํฌ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ํ•ต์šฐ์‚ฐ ๋ฐ‘์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด์˜จ ๊ตญ ๊ฐ€๋“ค์ด ์•ˆ๋ณด ์œ„ํ˜‘์„ ๋А๋‚„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

ํƒˆ๋งˆ์ง€ ํŽ ๋กœ๋Š”โ€œ์•ˆ๋ณด ์œ„ํ˜‘์„ ๋А๋‚€ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ๋…์ž์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•ต๋ฌด์žฅ ์„ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ์ค‘๊ตญยท๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„ ๋“ฑ ์ ๋Œ€์ ์ธ ํ•ต๋ณด์œ ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ข€ ๋” ๊ฐ€๊นŒ

์šด ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋งบ์œผ๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ๋‚ด๋‹ค๋ดค๋‹ค.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„  ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ์ „ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น ์žฌ์ง‘๊ถŒ์‹œ ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ผ๋ณธ ์ด ๋…์ž ํ•ต๋ฌด์žฅ์— ๋‚˜์„ค ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ์ด ๋“œ๋ฌผ์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค. ์•ž์„œ ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด์˜ ์‹ฑํฌํƒฑํฌ ์ „๋žต ๊ตญ์ œ๋ฌธ์ œ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ(CSIS)์˜ ๋น…ํ„ฐ ์ฐจ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์„์ขŒ๋Š” ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ์ „ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ์ง‘๊ถŒํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ฒ ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋‹จ ํ–‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด์„œ ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ผ๋ณธ, ๋Œ€ ๋งŒ ๋“ฑ์˜ ์—ฐ์‡„ ํ•ต๋ฌด์žฅ ์‹œ๋‚˜๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋ฅผ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ›„์›ํšŒ ๊ฒฐ์„ฑ ์ค€๋น„ ์œ„์›์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์„ ์ž„๋œ ํ…Œ๋ Œ์Šค ๋ฐ•์”จ๋Š” 10์ผ ์•ค๋”” ๊น€ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ๋ณธ๋ถ€์™€ ์กฐ์œจํ•˜์—ฌ ํ›„์›์˜ ๋ฐค ๋‚ ์งœ๋ฅผ 9์›” 6์ผ(๊ธˆ) ์˜คํ›„ 6์‹œ30 ๋ถ„ 8์‹œ30๋ถ„์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ํ›„์› ํšŒ ์ฐธ์—ฌ ๋Œ€์ƒ์€ ์•ค๋”” ๊น€ ํ•˜์›์˜์› ์„ ํ›„์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ํ•œ์ธ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์„ ๊ฑฐ ์ž๊ธˆ ๋ชจ๊ธˆ๋ฒ•์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ํ›„์›๊ธˆ์€ ๊ฐœ ์ธ๋‹น ์ตœ๊ณ  3,300 ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊นŒ์ง€ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ ํ›„์› ํ•˜๊ณ ์‹ถ์€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋™ํฌ ๋“ค์ด ๋ถ€๋‹ด์—†์ด ์ฐธ์—ฌ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก

ํƒˆ๋ถ๋ฏผ๊ฐ•์ œ๋ถ

์‹œ๋ฏผ๋‹จ์ฒด

ํƒˆ๋งˆ์ง€ ํŽ ๋กœ๋Š” ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€ ์‹œ์ ˆ ์ด๋ž€๊ณผ์˜ ํ•ตํ•ฉ์˜(JCPOA) ํŒŒ๊ธฐ,โ€˜ํ™”์—ผ๊ณผ ๋ถ„๋…ธโ€™๋กœ ์š”์•ฝ๋˜๋Š” ๋ถํ•œ๊ณผ์˜ ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ ๊ณ ์กฐ ์ƒํ™ฉ ๋“ฑ์„ ์˜ˆ ๋กœ ๋“ค๋ฉด์„œโ€œํ•ต๋ฌธ์ œ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผ ํ”„์˜ ์ž…์žฅ์ด ์ง€๋‚œ 4๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋ณ€ํ–ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณผ ์ด์œ ๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹คโ€๊ณ 

ไธญ, ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜โ€˜ํƒˆ๋ถ๋ฏผ ๋ณดํ˜ธโ€™๊ถŒ๊ณ  ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€

์ค‘๊ตญ์ด ํƒˆ๋ถ๋ฏผ์€ ๋‚œ๋ฏผ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ

๊ถŒ๊ณ ๋ฅผ

๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

์ค‘๊ตญ์€ ์ตœ๊ทผ ์œ ์—” ์ธ๊ถŒ์ตœ๊ณ ๋Œ€ ํ‘œ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์†Œ(OHCHR)์— ์ œ์ถœํ•œ ์ œ

๋ณดํŽธ์  ์ธ๊ถŒ ์ •๋ก€๊ฒ€ํ† (UPR)

๊ถŒ๊ณ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‹ต๋ณ€์„œ์—์„œ ์ด๊ฐ™์ด ๋ฐํžŒ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ 11์ผ ํ™•์ธ๋๋‹ค. ์ค‘๊ตญ์€โ€œ๊ฒฝ์ œ์ ์ธ ์ด์œ ๋กœ ์ค‘ ๊ตญ์— ๋ถˆ๋ฒ• ์ž…๊ตญํ•œ ์กฐ์„ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜ ์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ(๋ถํ•œ) ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๋‚œ๋ฏผ ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๋ฉด์„œ ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ฒด์ฝ”์˜ ๊ถŒ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ช…์‹œํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•œ๊ตญ์€ ์ง€๋‚œ 1์›” ์œ ์—” ์ œ๋„ค๋ฐ” ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์†Œ์—์„œ ์—ด๋ฆฐ ์ค‘๊ตญ ๋Œ€์ƒ UPR ์—์„œโ€˜๋ถํ•œ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์™ธ๊ตญ ๊ตญ์  ์ดํƒˆ์ž์—๊ฒŒ ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณต ํ•˜๋ผโ€™๊ณ  ๊ถŒ๊ณ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ž๋ผ๋‚˜๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํ•œ์ธ ์ฒญ์†Œ๋…„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์™€ ๋ฌธํ™”,

์ธ๋ฌผ์„ ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜์—ฌ ํ•œ๊ตญ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜ฌ๋ฐ”๋ฅธ ์ธ์‹๊ณผ ์ž๊ธ์‹ฌ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ฒŒ ํ•จ์œผ

๋กœ์จ ํ•œ์ธ์œผ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์„ ํ‚ค์›Œ์ฃผ์ž. ํŠนํžˆ ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „์Ÿ์„ ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜

์—ฌ ์ „์Ÿ์˜ ์›์ธ, ๊ณผ์ •, ํ›„์œ ์ฆ, ๋‚จ๋ถํ•œ ๊ต๋ฅ˜ ํ™•๋Œ€ ๋ฐฉ์•ˆ ๋ชจ์ƒ‰, ํ†ต์ผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋Š”

๊ธธ์„

์—ด์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ ํ•˜์žโ€

๋Œ€๋‰ด์š•์ง€๊ตฌ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์—ฌ๊ณ  ๋™์ฐฝํšŒ ์‚ฐํ•˜, ๊ฒฝ์šด์žฅํ•™ํšŒ๋Š” 4์›” 27์ผ ์˜คํ›„ 1์‹œ

๋งจํ•ดํŠผ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•„

์†Œ์‚ฌ์ด์–ดํ‹ฐ(The Korea Society)์—์„œโ€˜ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „์Ÿ (The Korean War)โ€™์„ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ ์ œ14ํšŒ ์˜์–ด์›…๋ณ€๋Œ€ํšŒ๋ฅผ ํ™”์ƒ ๋ฐ ๋Œ€๋ฉด ํ•˜

์ด๋ธŒ๋ฆฌ๋“œ(hybrid)๋กœ ๊ฐœ์ตœํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

์ฐธ๊ฐ€ ๋Œ€์ƒ์€ ๋ฏธ ์ „์—ญ์— ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•˜๋Š” 9ํ•™๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 12ํ•™๋…„์˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณ„์™€ ๋น„ํ•œ

๊ตญ๊ณ„ ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™์ƒ์ด๋‹ค.

์ด ๋Œ€ํšŒ์— ์ฐธ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์€ ์ด๋ฏธ ์˜ฌํ•ด 2์›”โ€˜ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „์Ÿ(The Korean

War)โ€™์„ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ ์˜์–ด ๊ธ€์ž์ˆ˜ 1,400์ž ๋‚ด, ์›…๋ณ€๊ธธ์ด๋Š” 4-6๋ถ„์˜ ์›๊ณ ๋ฅผ

์ž‘์„ฑํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฒฝ์šด์žฅํ•™ํšŒ๋กœ ๋ณด๋‚ด, ๊ฒฝ์šด์žฅํ•™ํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์›๊ณ  ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฒฐ์„  ์ง„

์ถœ์ž 15๋ช…์˜ ์„ ์ •์„ ๋งˆ์ณค๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ์„  ์ง„์ถœ์ž๋“ค์€ ์žฅํ•™ํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ์Šคํ”ผ์น˜ ์›Œํฌ์ƒต์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์Šคํ”ผ์น˜

์ฝ”์นญ์„ ๋ฐ›์€ ํ›„, 4์›” 27์ผ ๋ณธ์„ ์—์„œ ๊ฒฝํ•ฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค 15๋ช… ์ค‘ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ์ง€์— ๋”ฐ

๋ผ 11๋ช…์€ ์ง์ ‘ ๋Œ€ํšŒ์žฅ์—์„œ ๋Œ€๋ฉด์œผ๋กœ, 3๋ช…์€ virtual๋กœ, 1๋ช…์€ recording ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์„ ์„ ์น˜๋ €๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์˜ฌํ•ด๋Š” 15๋ช…์˜ ๊ฒฐ์„  ์ง„์ถœ์ž ์ค‘ 4๋ช…์ด ๋น„ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณ„ ํ•™์ƒ์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋Œ€ ์ƒ ๋“ฑ ์ž…์‹ฑ์ž ์ค‘์—๋„ ๋น„ ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณ„ ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์•˜๋‹ค. ๊ฒฝ์šด์žฅํ•™ํšŒ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ 2011๋…„~2021๋…„ ๋Œ€ํšŒ ์ž…์ƒ์ž๋“ค์˜ ์›๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ์•„ โ€˜Teens Speakโ€™๋ผ๋Š” ๋‹จํ–‰๋ณธ์„ ๋‚ด์–ด ๋ฏธ ์ „๊ตญ ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต์™€ ๊ฐ ๋„์„œ๊ด€์— ๋ฐฐ ๋ถ€ ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, 2022~2031๋…„ ๋Œ€ํšŒ ์ž…์ƒ์ž‘๋„ ๋‹จํ–‰๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ์ถœํŒํ•  ์˜ˆ์ • ์ด๋‹ค.

UnforgettableLessonsfromtheforgottenwar โ—† 2๋“ฑ์ƒ-2

For many, the Korean War was a sudden eruption of unimaginable violence when the North Korean army poured across the 38th parallel in a surprise attack. To disregard the slow build-up to this horrific event, however, is to miss the lessons that history has for us. Today I want to explore this history with you to help resolve the ongoing Korean conflict of the present.

The twentieth century brought a drastic change to the Korean peninsula as dominant nations wrestled with each other for power. When Japan colonized Korea, a once sovereign nation was subjugated by oppressive laws that reduced the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly. Nonetheless, Koreans continued to resist by covert and overt means, even sending brigades to fight with the Allies against the Axis powers. Ultimately, the surrender of Japan provided a promising closure to World War II, and instilled a long-yearned hope for the future of the Korean peninsula.

It is said that history is written by the victors. Japan, once renowned for its military prowess and its imperial ambitions, was left a blank page to be written on by the Allied forces, chiefly the United States. Similarly, Korea, then a former Japanese colony, faced the same fate. The U.S. and the USSR, among the chief victors of World War II, assumed what was intended to be a temporary trusteeship over Korea. Korea

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was divided into North and South at the 38th parallel with the goal of rebuilding a unified nation. However, as democracy and communism vied for the allegiance of the Korean populace, the spirit of a formerly united peninsula was divided.

In a world gripped by the fear of communist expansion, the United States thwarted attempts by communist or any indigenous Korean political forces to govern the South. Without intervention, communist forces swiftly seized control of the government through the Peopleโ€™s Republic of Korea provisional government. Syngman Rhee, driven by his steadfast belief in unity and resilience of the Korean people, was allowed to return to Korea after his 33 year exile to rectify a fractured political landscape and uphold the principle that a unified Korea could stand tall to any

challenges it faced.

Despite Korean political efforts to achieve selfgovernance, the United States and the USSR committed themselves to a five-year agreement to determine the future of Korea, establishing the Soviet-U.S. Commission. Unfortunately, progress was hard to come by. The trusteeship of the U.S. and the USSR began devolving into two deeply entrenched rival Korean states with diametrically opposed ideologies.

The year 1947 was a pivotal point in the quest for Korean unity. Facing an impasse and a shortfall of tangible results, the United States made a fateful decision. In September of that year, the United States announced the termination of efforts in the joint commission and sought to expedite the Korean peace process through means of the United Nations.

The USSR feared it would suffer a potential setback in its efforts to expand the sphere of influence of communism. In a last ditch effort, the USSR countered the United Statesโ€™ solution with an order to remove all foreign troops, seeking to leave the fate of the peninsula to its own people. But this motion ultimately failed.

The formation of the Republic of Korea in the South in August 1948 emphasized the stark division in ideologies in Korea, which was juxtaposed with the misleadingly named

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โ€œ โ€ฆ GiventhehorrorsoftheKoreanWar, wemustnotgiveuponthepowerofdiplomacytoseekapeacefulresolution. Giventhemistakes thatledtotheKoreanwar, wemustnotmisjudgetheshrillandstridentrhetoricfromNorthKoreaastheirinabilitytothinkrationally. Therewill surelybenovictorsifthenuclear-armedparticipantsinasecondKoreanWar. Wemustbewillingtoseekreasonablecompromiseoverrigid ideology, andwemustempowertheKoreanpeopletobemastersoftheirownfate, notproxiesofonesideortheother. Ifthoseofuswho haveenjoyedfreedomandprosperityremainsteadfastinourprinciplesandbowdowntonotyrant, thereishopeforKorea, andindeed, hopefortheworld.โ€

โ€œDemocraticโ€ Peopleโ€™s Republic of Korea in the North in the following month. The relationship between the two only further deteriorated as both sides vowed to unify the peninsula under their own rule.

A smoldering two year period of espionage, border skirmishes, and political assassinations ensued.

Finally, on one fateful Sunday morning on June 25, 1950, a massive artillery barrage from the North announced the beginning of the Korean War. Before the roar of artillery would be stilled with an armistice, over three million lives would be lost, including that of my great grandfather. Despite this, the Korean War has come to be known as the Forgotten War, as the ongoing episodes of the overarching Cold War pushed it into the past.

From the ashes of war, the South has arisen as a shining beacon of democracy and of economic and technological

achievement, even eclipsing its archrival Japan in many ways. Still, the North persists with its totalitarian, oppressive regime, pouring much of what its meager economy produces into its war machine. As two victors of World War II sought to write their history in Korea, the result was a stalemate that persists in increasingly stark relief to this day.

Today, as with many points in the history of Korea, we stand on the razorโ€™s edge. On one side, there is the shining hope of a unified and prosperous Korea. On the other is the dark specter of a second Korean War that could even give rise to a third World War.

North Korea pushes the reality of this dark future as it relentlessly pursues nuclear missile testing and rewrites its constitution to label South Korea its principal enemy. How can we rise to this challenge?

Given the horrors of the Korean War, we must not give up on the power of diplomacy to

seek a peaceful resolution. Given the mistakes that led to the Korean war, we must not misjudge the shrill and strident rhetoric from North Korea as their inability to think rationally. There will surely be no victors if the nuclear-armed participants in a second Korean War. We must be willing to seek reasonable compromise over rigid ideology, and we must empower the Korean people to be masters of their own fate, not proxies of one side or the other. If those of us who have enjoyed freedom and prosperity remain steadfast in our principles and bow down to no tyrant, there is hope for Korea, and indeed, hope for the world. Let the Forgotten War be remembered as something that taught us a valuable lesson - a lesson that for freedom truly to prevail, diplomacy must succeed, the right of a people to choose their fate must be respected, and that the Korean War must never come to pass again.

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