Though the armistice agreement ended hostilities, the war – known in North Korea as “The Great Fatherland Liberation War” – never technically ended. To this day, the US and South Korea are still legally at war with North Korea.
Soon after the armistice was declared, the US organized a meeting of the belligerent parties in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss how to definitively end the war, but no solution was produced. Since then, several skirmishes and ambushes have taken place on either side of the DMZ. A little-known prolonged period of conflict between 1966 and 1969 is sometimes called the Second Korean War, although it is more commonly referred to as the Korean DMZ Conflict.
Tensions between the North and the South continue to this day.
