Armistice Negotiations Begin in Korea
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- Stalemate
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10 July 1951 Armistice Negotiations Begin in Korea |
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In the late spring United Nations forces, now under the
command of Matthew Ridgeway, launched a counteroffensive that finally stopped
the Chinese advance. However, by the summer the war had settled into a
stalemate largely along the 38th parallel—in other words, along the original
boundary between North and South Korea. On July 10 formal peace negotiations
began between the two sides at the town of Kaesong. There was general agreement
that the peace would involve more or less a return to the status quo before
the war. The major sticking point involved Chinese and North Korean prisoners
of war; the Chinese insisted that all be repatriated, but it turned out
that the majority of these prisoners did not want to go back. Because UN
negotiators refused to repatriate these men against their will, the war
dragged on.
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