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The Korean War: carnage, stalemate and ceasefire

Two boys serving in the North Korean Army are interrogated by a US soldier after they were taken prisoner. [AFP]

As well as pitting North against South, the Korean War embroiled each side's communist and Western allies -- with the Soviet Union and China backing Pyongyang, and a US-led coalition under a United Nations banner supporting Seoul.

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