July 27 in Military History — On This Day

The Second Siege of Jinju

Hideyoshi had been humiliated when Jinju held out against him the previous year, and he ordered it taken and everyone in it killed. Ninety-three thousand Japanese besieged perhaps 6,000 defenders and 60,000 civilians who had crowded inside. The walls were undermined and collapsed in the rain after nine days, and the city was destroyed — soldiers, civilians, and, by several accounts, even the animals.

The worst atrocity of the war and one of the deadliest single events in Korean history: the fortress was taken purely to erase an insult, during peace negotiations, with no strategic object. It is remembered alongside the kisaeng Non'gae, who is said to have embraced a Japanese commander at the victory banquet and thrown them both off the cliff into the Nam river.

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⚔️📍 Panmunjom, Korea1953

Korean War Armistice Signed

Military commanders from the United Nations Command and North Korea signed an armistice ending three years of fighting, establishing a demilitarized zone (DMZ) near the 38th Parallel. No peace treaty was ever signed.

The armistice froze the Korean peninsula in a permanent state of technical war that continues today; North and South Korea remain technically at war despite 70+ years of ceasefire.

Outcome

Fighting stops; Korea remains divided; no peace treaty signed