The anniversary events were more sombre in South Korea, where President Yoon Suk-yeol visited a war cemetery in Busan to honour foreign troops who died while fighting for the South. The July 1953 truce was never replaced with a peace treaty, leaving the Korean Peninsula in a technical state of war, but the North still sees it as a victory in the “Grand Fatherland Liberation War”. South Korea, the United States and troops from other nations under the aegis of the UN fought to push back the invasion. North Korea, which triggered the war with a surprise attack on the South in June 1950, was supported by Chinese troops and the then-Soviet air force. The parade capped off the North Korean festivities for the 70th anniversary of the armistice that stopped fighting in the 1950-53 Korean War.
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