Korean War - PART 28, End of the War, 6.25 전쟁

President Syngman Rhee (Yi Seung-man) releases North Korean POWs to derail the armistice talks (6:25). The Armistice talks go into the final phases. Operation "Little Switch", the first big exchange of prisoners, takes place. In the meantime, the war goes on. The Spring 1953 Chinese offensives cause huge casualties on both sides, with little gained. The Chinese hit the South Korean part of the line hard to force Syngman Rhee to sign an armistice. The South Korean government did not want to sign the armistice. (They never did, and this is why a peace treaty was never signed, and that is why the Republic of Korea and the DPRK are still, technically, at war). Syngman Rhee, angered by the inevitable signing of an armistice, released thousands of North Korean POWs into the South Korean countryside in order to cause trouble for the truce talks, and to spite the USA for abandoning a "liberation" of North Korea.

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[acemoneymaker737]

the korean war never ended

[mlovmo]

Yes, very true. The ROK govt under Yi Seungman (Syngman Rhee) refused to sign the armistice agreement, which technically relegated the Korean penninsula to "at war" status up to the present-day. Having said this, it is not important to blame S. Korea for this: Either side could have seen a justification for not signing. Neither North nor South was in the war just to go back to the status-quo ante of a divided country.

[OldWatchman39]

Dams are power stations,both sides targeted them during WW2,the UK even came up with a skipping dam busting bomb.The Nazis were charged because they blew the dams and dyke's to punish the population after Market Garden,30,000 Dutch people starved to death because of that.Article 147 of the Geneva Convention addresses starving the population by an "Occupying Power".When Korea was fought,breaking the population was used as a weapon by both sides.And no,this war has never ended