True, only an armistice is in place (and our book is sub-titled War Without End) but there has been no inter-state fighting since this was signed but the point is that the US decided to draw stumps along the 38th Parallel and thus was its ‘end of war’ status. The truck was to persuade the Chinese that they too would get nothing further out of attempting to expand into South Korea
Very interesting, thanks. I'm not familiar with the Korean war, but I'd assume the static war for 2 years was due to the overwhelming people superiority of the Chinese forces?
By 1952 it was actually the product of the UN determination not to try to ‘defeat’ the enemy and reunite Korea by force, and to force the Chinese by means of holding them in the 38th Parallel, to do the same.
“By such means was the war won…”
Was it? Armistice still exists.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Armistice_Agreement
True, only an armistice is in place (and our book is sub-titled War Without End) but there has been no inter-state fighting since this was signed but the point is that the US decided to draw stumps along the 38th Parallel and thus was its ‘end of war’ status. The truck was to persuade the Chinese that they too would get nothing further out of attempting to expand into South Korea
Very interesting, thanks. I'm not familiar with the Korean war, but I'd assume the static war for 2 years was due to the overwhelming people superiority of the Chinese forces?
By 1952 it was actually the product of the UN determination not to try to ‘defeat’ the enemy and reunite Korea by force, and to force the Chinese by means of holding them in the 38th Parallel, to do the same.
Ah, I see, thanks. I'll need to read more, indeed!