It was July 27, 1953, and U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower went to Korea in hopes of ending this bloody and long-standing "conflict." Both sides of the Korean peninsula had tried everything imaginable to be the ultimate victor, but nothing was working.

The North had invaded first, a now-documented fact still denied by that nation. North Korea had provoked the South, just as it is doing as I write these words today, but when all was said and done, it was a pouring over the artificial border by zillions of North Korean troops that started this awful slaughter.

The surprise and brute force involved pushed the South farther and farther back until only the southeastern tip of the nation, near Pusan, still stood. It seemed that within days the world would be talking of Communist Korea, much as it does now of Communist Vietnam. What a different region if not world this would be if things had not turned around.

In the providence of God, American General Macarthur was empowered to launch an attack at Inchon, behind the troops of North Korea. Trapped and startled, they eventually made their way back into the northern regions, with American-Korean troops on their heels. Back across the "line", the 38th parallel, and farther. On to the Chinese border.

Then another surprise. China, the sometimes loyal mother of the Korean people, not wanting a free American-based nation on its border, sent hordes of troops down into Korea and countered the American offensive. Back down, down, to where everything had started. The line.

The line still stands. One of the few differences of the boundary line is that it now comes south of what once was the capital of all Korea, Kaesong. It is firmly in North Korea now. And it was at Kaesong, where at this writing a South Korean is being held hostage, and where the dread of more such hostages hovers as a joint North-South business venture fails in the wake of a pending war, here that the truce was signed on that fateful day 56 years ago this July 27.

Well, that is, North Korea signed, America signed. But Syngman Rhee, Korea's first President in the South, would not sign. In his eyes, all of Korea was one, the war had been a horrible waste of life and time, and this was an unjust settlement. Fight on until this thing is settled.

Dear Mr. Rhee, equally praised and villified by historians, may soon get his way. Kim Jong Il seems poised for the continuation of hostilities, armed with nuclear capabilities and the seeming inability of the "great nations" to stand in his way.

What Mr. Kim has always failed to realize is that the Korean War will roll on with or without him. This is a war being fought in the heavens, as are all wars of men. God's will, not Kim's will, will be done. The Koreans will hear of Jesus, Kim or no Kim. They will be called to Eternal Life, Kim or no Kim.

God enlists soldiers for this war even now. Prayer warriors must position themselves and dig in the trenches on a daily basis to uphold this land. They must listen to the Commander in Chief for strategic ideas about how to get the work done that needs to be done.