A national conference of war veterans took place in Pyongyang on Tuesday for the second straight year, and all the war veterans across the country have received "various foodstuffs and precious tonics," KCNA reported.
Fighting in the Korean War ended after the signing of the armistice on July 27, 1953, leaving the Republic of Korea (ROK) and DPRK technically in a state of war. The DPRK called the war the Fatherland Liberation War and designated the armistice signing date as Victory Day.
The war did not persist for a long time but was extremely bloody, leading to more than 3 million civilian deaths and creating more than 3 million refugees.
According to statistics from the DPRK, the war destroyed about 8,700 factories, 5,000 schools, 1,000 hospitals and 600,000 households, and more than 2 million children under the age of 18 were relocated by the war.
