Lee Juk-jul was a teenager when the Korean War broke out sixty years ago, separating her from her family in the North permanently. Last year, she made a special trip to North Korea to visit her sister whom she hadn’t seen in six decades. There were tears, hugs and a surprise: she doesn’t think reunification of the Koreas will ever happen. And that it shouldn’t.

Photo - With her brother on her back a war-weary Korean girl tiredly trudges by a stalled tank, at Haengju, Korea. June 9, 1951.

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