The horrors of the Korean War have been brought back to life and laid bare in a series of digitally colourised pictures.
한국 전쟁의 공포는 다시 살아나고 일련의 디지털 색칠된 그림에 맨손으로 놓여 있습니다.
The vivid colour images show many different sides of the war between North and South Korea, which started in 1950 and ended with an armistice in 1953.
생생한 컬러 이미지는 1950 년에 시작되어 1953 년에 휴전으로 끝난 남북 전쟁의 여러면을 보여줍니다.
One striking photo shows a Korean girl with her baby brother on her back tiredly trudging past a stalled M-26 tank, at Haengju Fortress in Goyang, South Korea.
한 눈에 띄는 사진은 고양의 행주 요새에서 지친 M-26 탱크를 지나쳐 등에 동생을 태운 한국 소녀를 보여줍니다.
1951년 6월 고양의 행주 요새 미군 M-26 탱크를 지나쳐 동생과 함께 지친 채 터벅터벅 걸어가는 한국 소녀가 500만 명 가까이 목숨을 잃었다. 1953년 휴전 협정으로 전쟁이 끝날 때까지 이 사진이 찍힌 지 2년이 더 걸릴 것이다
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN NORTH KOREA AND SOUTH KOREA
북한과 한국 간의 갈등에 관한 간략한 역사
In June 1950 fighting broke out between the communist North and capitalist South, sparking a brutal war that killed between two and four million people.
1950년 6월 공산주의 북부와 자본주의 남부 사이에 전쟁이 일어나면서 잔혹한 전쟁으로 2 ~ 4 백만 명이 사망했습니다.
Beijing backed Pyongyang in the three-year conflict, while Washington threw its support behind the South -- alliances that have largely endured.
베이징은 3년간의 전쟁에서 평양을 지지했지만 워싱턴은 남한과 동맹국들에게 지지를 보냈다.
The Koreas have been locked in a dangerous dance ever since that conflict ended in 1953 with an armistice rather than a formal peace treaty, leaving them technically at war.
1953년 분쟁이 끝난 후 한국은 공식적인 평화 조약이 아닌 휴전 협정으로 위험한 춤에 갇혀 기술적으로 전쟁에 빠져있다.
Pyongyang has tested the fragile ceasefire with numerous attacks.
The secretive nation sent a team of 31 commandos to Seoul in a botched attempt to assassinate then-President Park Chung-Hee in 1968. All but two were killed.
In the 'axe murder incident' of 1976, North Korean soldiers attacked a work party trying to chop down a tree inside the Demilitarized Zone, leaving two US army officers dead.
Pyongyang launched perhaps its most audacious assassination attempt in Myanmar in 1983, when a bomb exploded in a Yangon mausoleum during a visit by South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan. He survived but 21 people, including some government ministers, were killed.
▲U.S. Marines covering the road leading to the front lines in South Korea in 1950
In 1987 a bomb on a Korean Air flight exploded over the Andaman Sea, killing all 115 people on board. Seoul accused Pyongyang, which denied involvement.
The North's founding leader Kim Il-Sung died in 1994, but under his son Kim Jong-Il it continued to prod its southern neighbor.
In 1996 a North Korean submarine on a spying mission ran aground off the eastern South Korean port of Gangneung, sparking 45-day manhunt that ended with 24 crew members and infiltrators killed.
A clash between South Korean and North Korean naval ships in 1999 left some 50 of the North's soldiers dead.
In March 2010 Seoul accused Pyongyang of torpedoing one of its corvette warships, killing 46 sailors. Pyongyang denied the charge.
November that year saw North Korea launch its first attack on a civilian-populated area since the war, firing 170 artillery shells at Yeonpyeong. Four people were killed, including two civilians.
North Korea has steadfastly pursued its banned nuclear and ballistic missile programs since its first successful test of an atomic bomb in 2006, as it looks to build a rocket capable of delivering a warhead to the US mainland.
Its progress has accelerated under leader Kim Jong-Un, culminating in its sixth and biggest nuclear test in September 2017.
Kim has since declared the country a nuclear power.
Despite the caustic effect of clashes and the battery of conventional weapons that the North has amassed at the border to threaten Seoul, the two nations have held talks in the past.
Then North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il held two historic summits with counterparts from the South in 2000 and 2007, which eased tensions between the neighbors.
Lower-level talks since then have been much hyped but failed to produce significant results.
Source: AFP