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US proposes official end to the Korean War

July 28, 2015

FILE — A North Korean soldier takes picture of an American soldier and a Korean military police officer at Panmujeom. (Newsis)

Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. led a resolution to formally end the Korean War. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

On the Korean peninsula, it is common knowledge that although both South and North Korea have been engaged in a ceasefire since 1953, the two countries are technically still at war.

U.S. lawmakers are looking to put an end to that by proposing that the Korean War officially end on Monday, which marks the 62nd anniversary of the Korean Armistice Agreement.

“It has been 65 years since the start of this war, yet there is lingering pain because it has never officially ended. The best thing we can do to honor the sacrifices of the Korean War veterans and the Korean people is to help bring about final closure to this painful chapter in history and help efforts to unite the divided Peninsula,” U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) said according to Yonhap News Agency.

Rangel along with Reps. John Conyers Jr. (D-MI) and Sam Johnson (R-TX) are the three politicians who leading the way to develop a peace treaty.

“On the 62nd anniversary of the Korean War Armistice, the fact that the Korean Peninsula is still technically in a state of war is wrong,” said Johnson in a public statement. “The people of Korea, our American veterans who served during this war, and their families all deserve the closure that a formal ending to this conflict.”