Alcee Hastings: “It really is just a sense of the Congress expressing our support for and encouragement of four-party talks between the…”

“It really is just a sense of the Congress expressing our support for and encouragement of four-party talks between the United States, South Korea, North Korea, and China. Since the Korean peninsula was divided at the end of World War II, between the North and South, repeated attempts at reunification have failed. The 1950 through 1953 Korean war ended in an armistice agreement which altered hostilities but left the two sides technically at war, divided by a heavily fortified demilitarized zone that the gentleman from California [Mr. Kim] and myself and others had an opportunity to visit recently.”