With North Korean and South Korean leaders set for a potentially historic meeting on Friday—and a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in the works—some observers are feeling hopeful about finally putting an end to a war that's technically been going on for more than 60 years. This week, TIME History took a look at why the Korean War didn't actually end with the ceasefire that was signed in 1953.
You can click here to learn more about how what one expert calls their "conflict without hostilities" has continued unabated since then.
Here's more of the history that made news this week:
"A woman in space today is no more preposterous than a woman in a field hospital 100 years ago"
FROM THE TIME VAULT
Today in 1999: Star Wars Returns
“A short time from now, in a galleria not far from you...the creatures will assemble in a movie-plex queue so long it might seem computer-generated. Guys as tall as Wookiees with Ewok-size children in their backpacks. Teenage girls dreaming they can be Queen Amidala, if only they had her Faberge-egg earrings. The Anakin-young and the Yoda-old, the dutiful moms and the punks with their Han Solo 'tudes—all the children of Star Wars will be waiting for magic to strike in '99, as it did in '77.” (April 26, 1999)
“Compromise is one word Arturo Toscanini never uses. Once in Salzburg, he adamantly refused to have a certain soloist in an opera because he felt he didn't look the part. He has canceled concerts at the last minute because he felt the orchestra was insufficiently rehearsed. No commands or considerations—financial or humane—have ever been able to shake him. He is rarely satisfied with his own magnificent performances, and, notoriously, almost never pleased by any other conductor's. After some of his own concerts, he has gone into his dressing room to sit for hours, head in hands." (April 26, 1948)
“Little wonder then that turnstiles clicked like Castanets as combined major league opening-day attendance figures hit an alltime high. Baseball '76, which for weeks had seemed unlikely to get launched at all, was off to a rocketing start. The long legal arguments over the rights of spring, at least for the moment, proved no contest for the game's own rites of spring. The grandest new blossom of baseball's most stimulating April ever was Yankee Stadium, a glowing renovation of the most famous, nostalgia-imbued house of sweat in America." (April 26, 1976)
“Our Shame” This striking editorial from the Montgomery Advertiser — inspired by the opening of a new memorial there — is an apology for the way the paper covered lynchings and mob violence against African Americans, from the years following the Civil War all the way up to the 1950s.
Going Nowhere For the Independent, Simon Calder visits a central European region that used to be the home of the nation of Ruthenia, for a journey to a land that no longer exists.
Cuban Relations Peter Kornbluh at Politico has this fascinating investigation into how the personal relationship between Fidel Castro and American journalist Lisa Howard changed history.
Credit Where It’s Due Historian Danielle McGuire reminds readers at the Columbia Journalism Review that what the general public knows about the past doesn’t just materialize on its own. Rather, it’s often the result of dogged research by an individual.
Who She Was On the occasion of the unveiling of the first statue of a woman—suffragist Millicent Fawcett—in London’s Parliament Square, the U.K. National Archives has more on her story.
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