In the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, US military deputies at the negotiating table could be said to have done everything in their power, from the threat of force to rolling on the ground. However, with the unremitting efforts of the chiefs, they finally bowed their heads at the negotiating table and completely won the battle for the founding of the country. What tricks did the enemy use at that time? What kind of bizarre story happened in the negotiations? Let's go back to 1950 and revisit the beginning and end of this negotiation.
In the summer of 1950, a makeshift combined army stepped into the battlefield in a vain attempt to take the entire peninsula in one fell swoop. But after two battles for the Volunteers, the Combined Forces suffered an unexpected heavy blow, and Truman began to consider negotiating a solution. Although such negotiations had been proposed, their practical approach had not been in good faith. The U.S. military just wants both sides not to send more troops to maintain the current state on the battlefield, and they have always advocated a ceasefire before negotiations, otherwise there will be no way to proceed smoothly. However, Premier Zhou immediately saw the conspiracy of the US army, they just wanted to let themselves breathe, and when the adjustment was ready to start the war again, the volunteer army did not give them any chance.
In early 1951, Truman looked at the collapsed troops and had to negotiate again, but this time it was still a ceasefire. Apparently, the U.S. military did not want to solve the problem peacefully, and during this time they gathered a large number of troops and launched a full-scale counterattack on January 25. At that time, the chiefs were even more convinced that if they wanted the U.S. military to sit at the negotiating table, they must first give them two slaps. By mid-May, the U.S. side began to question the war, and Truman issued an invitation to negotiate for the third time, but he did not know how much sincerity they had this time. Chairman Mao, after some deliberation, believed that although victory had been achieved now, there was not enough strength to drive them out completely, so negotiations could not be rejected. So on June 23, the People's Daily issued a statement expressing its willingness to negotiate with the US military.
On July 10, 1951, armistice negotiations were held for the first time in Kaesong. When the official start began, the chiefs found that the U.S. military still had no sincerity. In order to smoothly carry out the negotiations, the chiefs made concessions in some insignificant places, which made the US military feel that they were doing it again and began to find ways to suppress them. They demanded that the dividing line be pushed back tens of kilometers, which meant that the troops would lose a large amount of land and give the U.S. military a new advantage. After being reprimanded by the chiefs, the US military representatives were so ashamed and angry that they dared to publicly roar at the conference table and let the machine guns and cannons negotiate! At the same time, our troops were also engaged in firefights with the enemy, and it was clear that they wanted to use force to force the chiefs into submission. But with the failure of various operations, their plots were also broken one by one.
At the end of October 1951, the two sides reopened negotiations at Panmunjom. The U.S. military began to play rogue, demanding compensation for the so-called losses of sea and air, otherwise the dividing line would be pushed backwards. The chiefs almost didn't laugh out loud after hearing it, and the backhand asked them to compensate the Army compensation, which also made the US representatives embarrassed. They concluded by saying that if no agreement had been signed within a month, the dividing line would have been demarcated according to the area under final control, with the intention of pushing north again. When the negotiations once again reached an impasse, the US military brazenly launched a germ war, and the troops began to condemn through the international community while carrying out epidemic prevention work. In the end, the evidence was conclusive that the US military could not deny it, and could only stop the biochemical strike.
The time came to October 1952, which was the last counterattack of the US army. In the 43-day battle in Shangganling, the combined army paid a huge price, and in the end there was almost no return. Clarke, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces at the time, recalled that the casualties were so heavy that the troops had to stop fighting with units above the battalion level, that is, abandon the plan to launch a large-scale offensive. On April 11, 1952, Eisenhower assumed the presidency, and 25 days later he personally came to the peninsula to mediate. At that time, the call for an armistice was increasing, and he was more inclined to end the war quickly, so the US military began to show a trace of sincerity.
On April 26, 1953, the Panmunjom negotiations began again, and as a result, U.S. military representatives began to use their brains as prisoners of war to take advantage of the last resort. As a result, the volunteers had to teach them another lesson so that the negotiations could proceed smoothly. On June 8, the U.S. military accepted the chiefs' proposal to repatriate prisoners of war. Eight days later, the demarcation line was formally drawn between the two sides. But at this time, Syngman Rhee began to break the jar and break it, insisting on fighting to the end. Then the Volunteers fulfilled this demand, and the Battle of Jincheng shattered his last delusion. The U.S. military also trembled in their eyes, and finally on July 27, the two sides formally signed the armistice agreement, and the war officially ended.