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    Also on Trump's wish list: ending the Korean War

    by Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times Jun 10, 2018 4 minutes

    NEW YORK_It will take more than the Singapore summit to end the Korean War. And some Korea watchers, inveterate peaceniks included, aren't sure it's a good idea to officially end the war anyway.

    Three years of fighting in Korea ended with a 1953 armistice agreement rather than a peace treaty, so technically speaking the war is still going on.

    President Donald Trump seized upon that historical anomaly before Tuesday's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, pledging to try to bring the frozen conflict to an end when they sit down on Sentosa Island.

    "KOREAN WAR TO END!'' Trump said on Twitter in late April after the leaders of

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