SEOUL — As a tenuous ceasefire appeared to settle over the conflict between Israel and Iran, South Korea held solemn ceremonies on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of the war whose legacy still shapes the Korean Peninsula and casts a nuclear threat to the region.
The Korean War started on June 25, 1950, when Soviet-backed North Korean forces invaded the South. U.S. troops fought alongside the South and combat ceased three years later with the signing of a U.N.-brokered armistice agreement.
