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Sixty-three years ago today, on July 27, 1953, the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed, ceasing hostilities between North Korean Communist forces, backed by China, and South Korean forces, backed by the United Nations.

The war had raged across the Korean Peninsula for three years, leaving hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians dead. The Armistice formed the famous Demilitarized Zone that still separates North Korea and South Korea, technically still at war with each other.

On this anniversary of the armistice agreement, a look back at the people and places involved in the conflict sometimes called "the forgotten war.”

In this undated photo from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency, North Korean combatants plunge into Seoul during the Korean War.

In this undated photo, American combatants captured during the Korean War march down a street.

A command post in South Korea on July 12, 1950, as American soldiers keep on the alert with their straw covered camouflaged weapons carrier.

Tank landing ships unload at Inchon on September 15, 1950. American forces landed in Inchon Harbor one day after Battle of Inchon began.

Troops of the 31st Infantry Regiment land at Inchon Harbor, Korea, aboard LSTs on September 18, 1950.

A U.S. Marine orders captured North Koreans to keep their hands up on September 20, 1950.

Bodies of some 400 Korean civilians lie in and around trenches in Taejon's prison yard on September 28, 1950. The victims were bound and slain by retreating Communist forces before US troops recaptured the city.

Captured by American forces in the Taegu area of South Korea on October 8, 1950, these North Korean girls are marched to a train which will take them to a prisoner of war camp at Pusan.

A young officer and his wife sit in their car at the dock and stare quietly at the waiting aircraft carrier before he leaves for Korea. San Diego, 1950.

A U.S. Marine tank follows a line of prisoners of war down a village street. September 26, 1950.

South Korean WACs trained and ready to join their men in the battle against Chinese invaders, display military precision as they parade through Pusan, main United Nations' fort city in Korea, on September 12, 1950.

Paratroopers drop from U.S. Air Force C-119 transport planes during an operation over an undisclosed location in Korea, in October of 1950.

High explosives rip through several spans of a railroad bridge outside Hamhung as United Nations forces blow up the bridge as part of their withdrawal to prevent its being used by Chinese on December 19, 1950.

A long winding stream of Korean refugees board a vessel in Hungnam harbor, North Korea on December 21, 1950, as they flee the advancing Chinese Communists and North Koreans.

American GIs thread their way over snow-covered hills North of Seoul, South Korean capital on January 14, 1951, during earlier stages of U.N. withdrawal.

A pair of bound hands and a breathing hole in the snow at Yangji, Korea, January 27, 1951 reveal the presence of the body of a Korean civilian shot and left to die by retreating Communists during the Korean War.

Bomber Command planes of the U.S. Far East Air Forces rain tons of high demolition bombs on a strategic military target of the Chinese Communists in North Korea on January 18, 1951.

A Korean child sits in smoldering ruins of his home destroyed by fire in the Suwon area on February 3, 1951.

A U.N. soldier (left) stands guard at prisoner of war enclosure where a great mass of communist troops line up after their capture somewhere in Korea on March 21, 1951.

All Sgt. Bernard Young lacks is a private secretary to complete his "office" setting, on May 3, 1951.

With her brother on her back, a war-weary Korean girl trudges by a stalled M-26 tank, at Haengju, Korea. on June 9, 1951.

Supply warehouses and dock facilities at this east coast port explode after para-demolition bombs were dropped from the Fifth Air Force's B-26 Invader light bombers. Wonsan, North Korea, 1951.

Crew members stand on top of their tank after they got stranded in a river bed as they attempted to find a shallow crossing in the swollen Pukhan river. The tank was later towed out to safety by a tank retriever, April 7, 1951 in Korea.

This photo shows a small village housing North Korean vehicles and troops. Burning jeep in the background and a T-3V Tank.

A mobile army surgical hospital somewhere in Korea on October 26, 1951.

Helicopters were used on the battlefront as liaison planes and for evacuating the wounded.

A US aircraft floating on water after it crash-landed over the bow of USS Philippine Sea near Korea. The pilot is standing on the nose of the plane awaiting rescue.

The First Division Marines land at a seawall, far behind the lines of the communist forces, during the Landing at Inchon.

Tanks of the 1st Marine Tank Battalion bark death and devastation into the briefly day-lighted Korean night, as Marines fire a night mission at supply installations somewhere in Korea on January 16, 1952.

US soldiers digging into bunkers atop Old Baldy in Korea in 1952.

Pfc. Milton Reince of Green Bay, Wisconsin, adds a picture of Mitzi Gaynor to his bunkerful of pinups at his post in Korea on December 18, 1952.

GIs and Korean service corpsmen stack up an enormous pile of empty artillery and mortar shell casings at a collecting point near the front, pointing to the huge amount of lead thrown at the enemy in four days of fighting for outpost Harry, on June 18, 1953.

Maj. Gen. Blackshear M. Bryan, left, exchanges credentials with Communist Lt. Gen. Lee Sang Cho at the opening session of the Military Armistice Commission at the Panmunjom Conference House on July 27, 1953.

Three happy fliers of the 18th Fighter Bomber wing let the world know how they feel as they returned from a combat mission over North Korea to learn of the armistice signing on July 29, 1953.

Korean women weep as they identify bodies on October 28, 1953.

South Korean women weep as they listen to President Syngman Rhee speak at a memorial service in Seoul, October 17, 1953.

PFC Donald Jones of Topeka, Kansas, pauses to read a sign just posted on the south limit of the demilitarized zone in Korea.