The pause button was hit on the Korean War in 1953. Its legacy of destruction lives on.
In just three years, the war claimed the lives of millions of people and forever changed the Korean Peninsula.
„We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way or another, and some in South Korea, too,“ said former US Air Force commander Gen. Curtis LeMay in 1988, during an interview for an Air Force military history volume.