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July 27, 1953 Kim Il Sung signs the armistice agreement. The treaty ends the Korean War, but leaves the peninsula divided into North and South Korea.

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July 1953
Kim Il Sung, North Korea's founder and Great Leader, signs the armistice agreement that ends the hostilities of the Korean War, leaving the peninsula divided into North and South Korea.

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