With no armistice in effect, such an act would have been permissible under international law.
His parents received written notice of his death on the day the armistice was declared.
South and North Korea agree on need to end the current armistice and establish permanent peace.
In 1940, Marshal Philippe Petain announced that France had asked for armistice terms from Germany.
The silence was observed at Armistice Day services across the country at 1100 GMT.
The US has had a year-long conversation to sign an armistice agreement with North Korea.
Twitter users are planning to take part in an Armistice Day service on the social networking site.
At heart, however, the DMZ remains a place of limbo, frozen in time by the armistice of 1953.
The two Koreas remain technically at war because the 1950-53 conflict ended in an armistice, not a treaty.
It was the first time that Syrians caught up in clashes were allowed to cross the armistice line.
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This year's Veterans Day, originally called Armistice Day, marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War I.
Mr Higgins will be inaugurated on Armistice Day, 11 November, the day after current president Mary McAleese leaves office.
In 1918, Bulgaria signed an armistice with the allies in World War I.
South Korea says North Korea cannot unilaterally dissolve the armistice and has called on Pyongyang to tone down its language.
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Israel has been required to remove goods produced beyond the 1949 armistice lines from its free trade agreements with Europe.
He knows that, short of an armistice, a strategic withdrawal is better executed the less an enemy knows about its timing.
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The two countries signed an armistice in 1974, following the Yom Kippur War, and U.N. forces have been stationed there since.
South Korea has said North Korea cannot unilaterally dissolve the armistice and has called on Pyongyang to tone down its rhetoric.
His death will be marked in a special assembly at the college on Wednesday which is being held for Armistice Day.
The Korean Peninsula has been divided by a 4-kilometer-wide (2.5-mile-wide) Demilitarized Zone since the Korean War ended with an armistice in 1953.
On Saturday, up to 1, 000 members of the Protestant Apprentice Boys and bandsmen took part in an Armistice Day commemoration in Belfast.
Veterans Day celebrates the armistice that ended World War I in 1918.
The armistice agreement, signed six hours earlier, was the designated time when their political masters had decided the slaughter would stop.
This year Remembrance Sunday falls on 11 November itself, the date of the armistice which brought World War I to an end.
Relations between the two Koreas are tense - they remain technically at war following the 1950-53 Korean conflict, which ended in an armistice.
It marks the moment WWI ended after four years of fighting, with the signing of the Armistice Treaty by Germany and the Allies.
And along with that would go the false armistice between governments and investors that has papered over the underlying financial crisis since 2008.
Ian Martin, curator of the Kings Own Borderers Museum in Berwick, said the inscribed shell was most likely given to Beal after the Armistice.
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In Edinburgh about 500 members of the public joined veterans at a garden of remembrance to mark the signing of the Armistice in 1918.
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