A group of former members of U.N. forces who were wounded during the Korean War will visit Seoul next week at the invitation of the nation's war veteran organization, the group said Monday.
Eighteen veterans from six nations _ the U.S., Canada, Turkey, Ethiopia, Thailand and Australia _ and 11 of their family members will make the nine-day visit from Wednesday, the Korea Disabled Veterans Organization said in a statement.
"The invitation was designed to praise the sacrifice of the veterans and strengthen friendship with them," the statement said.
South Korea is still technically at war with North Korea because the 1950-53 war, in which the United Nations intervened after the North's invasion of the South, ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.