In Pyongyang, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is celebrating the 62nd anniversary of the end of the Korean War.

Photo provided by Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on July 27, 2015 shows top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un (C) visiting the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on the occasion of the 62nd anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War of the DPRK at 00:00, July 27. [Xinhua]?

Along with other high officials, DPRK leader Kim Jong Un visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the mausoleum for former leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, at midnight Sunday.

Hostilities between DPRK and South Korea lasted from June 25, 1950, until an armistice was signed on July 27, 1953. The conflict—which left up to five million people dead, wounded and missing—ended without a permanent peace treaty, and the two sides have been locked in a tense standoff ever since.