"Sometimes I get a little annoyed," says Max Desfor.
He is a former Associated Press photographer who covered the Korean War and has been invited by the South Korean government to take part in commemorations marking the 60th anniversary of the start of the war.
"I ask anyone who'll listen - why do they celebrate the start of the war? They celebrate the start, of course, because it's never ending - it's still going on".
The US, which backed the South, and North Korea signed a temporary truce in July 1953, but there was never a peace treaty. Technically they are still at war.
"The North Koreans invaded Korea, South Korea, and I immediately volunteered my services to the AP and said, 'I will cover that war' and my boss said, 'the war isn't going to last more than two weeks!'"
Pulitzer prize
I met Max at the Korean War Memorial on the Mall in Washington DC.
The 96-year-old has long since retired, but still carries a camera and stops to snap pictures as we talk.
"By this time, the troops - the North Koreans chasing the South Koreans - they were in a position about 15 or 20 miles south of Seoul and I caught up with the troops... that was my first coverage of the Korean War".
That coverage, and in particular an image he captured of Korean refugees crossing a wrecked bridge, earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1951.
"This incredible sight I saw, with Koreans fleeing from the north bank of the Taedong River, crawling through and into and above and onto the broken-down bridge, it was like ants crawling through the girders," he said.
"They carried what little possessions they had on their heads or strapped to their shoulders, and on the north side I saw thousands more lined up waiting to do the same thing, waiting to crawl and join the rest of them".
While in Korea, Max says he always wanted to go where the action was - whether it was with US soldiers or the South Koreans - and he was free to do so.
