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The Korean Armistice Agreement (Korean: 한국정전협정 / 조선정전협정; Chinese : 韓國停戰協定 / 朝鮮停戰協定) is an armistice that brought about a cessation of hostilities of the Korean War. It was signed by United States Army Lieutenant General William Harrison Jr. and General Mark W. Clark representing the United Nations ...
The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK) and South Korea (Republic of Korea; ROK) and their allies. North Korea was supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union, while South Korea was supported by the ...
The aftermath of the Korean War set the tone for Cold War tension between superpowers. The Korean War was important in the development of the Cold War, as it showed that the two superpowers, United States and Soviet Union, could fight a "limited war" in a third country. The "limited war" or "proxy war" strategy was a feature of conflicts such ...
When Dwight Eisenhower assumed the presidency in 1953, he had one immediate policy objective: to end the Korean War. In July of 1953 the war came to an end, with an uneasy stalemate. That the war ...
The 70th anniversary of the Korean War, sometimes called “the Forgotten War” in the United States, is being met with calls for a formal end. ... that the war had never officially ended,” the ...
Read CNN’s Fast Facts about the Korean War. Although hostilities ceased in 1953, there has been no formal end to the war.
Korean axe murder incident, August 18, 1976. This was the killing of two United States Army officers by North Korean soldiers in the Joint Security Area, near the Bridge of No Return, over the attempt to trim a poplar that obstructed vision between checkpoints, and heightened tensions on the border. This was followed by Operation Paul Bunyan ...
In the post-World War II era, not all wars involving territorial acquisitions ended in a peace treaty. For example, the fighting in the Korean War paused with an armistice, without any peace treaty covering it. North Korea is still technically at war with South Korea and the United States as of 2024. [6]