The Korean Armistice Agreement is the armistice which ended the Korean War. It was signed by U.S. Army Lieutenant General William Harris Jr. representing the United Nations Command (UNC), North Korean General Nam Il representing the Korean People's Army, and the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army The armistice was signed on July 27, 1953, and was designed to "insure a complete cessation of hostilities and of all acts of armed force in Korea until a final peaceful settlement is achieved.

 

" No "final peaceful settlement" has been achieved yet. The signed armistice established the Korean Demilitarized Zone a new border between the two nations, put into force a cease-fire, and finalized repatriation of prisoners of war. The Demilitarized Zone runs not far from the 38th parallel, which separated North and South Korea before the war.

 

The south Korean President   Syngman  Rhee, North Korean leader Kim IL-sung also sought complete unification. The North Korean side was slow to support armistice talks and only on June 27, 1951– seventeen days after armistice talks had begun–did it change its slogan of "drive the enemy into the sea" to "drive the enemy to the 38th parallel. North Korea was pressured to support armistice talks by allies China and the Soviet Union, whose support enabled North Korea to continue fighting.

 

In other words the war never ended the North Korean’s changed their  tactics to one of a hidden war called the DMZ wars which ran from 27 July 1953 to October 1992 and my still be going on to some extent.  The North Korean Special Operation Force (NKSOF), officially the Korean People's Army Special Operation Force, consists of specially equipped and trained "elite" military units trained to perform military, political, or psychological operations for North Korea These units are still active in testing the defenses of South Korea and have been detected operating in or around South Korea many times in the decades since the end of the Korean war] There are about 180,000 special operational forces soldiers.

 

The missions of Special Operation Forces are to breach the fixed defense of South Korea, to create a "second front" in the enemy's rear area, and to conduct battlefield and strategic reconnaissance, on the flip side a former spy for the North (KIM) told the US government in a interview that there have been spy’s in the U.S. since the Mid 80’s, recruiting personnel here in the United States.