jul 27, 1953 - Korean Armistice Agreement signed - Effectivly ending the Korean war

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"The fighting in Korea dragged on for another two years, under conditions approximating WWI trench warfare. By the time the Chinese, the Americans, and their respective Korean allies, at last, managed to agree to an armistice, in July 1953, the war had left the peninsula devastated, with no clear victory for either side: the boundary between the two Koreas had hardly shifted from where it was in 1950. (Gaddis 2006, p. 50)

"The only decisive outcome of the war was the precedent it set: that there could be a bloody and protracted conflict involving nations armed with nuclear weapons – and that they could choose not to use them." (Gaddis 2006, p. 50)

"Exhausted by the war, the Chinese and the North Koreans were ready to end it by the fall of 1952, but Stalin insisted that they continue fighting. Only after Stalin’s death did his successors approve a cease-first which took place in July 1953." (Gaddis 2006, 59).

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