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Chinese Intervention

Thousands of Chinese had attacked scattered United States and South Korean units moving deep into North Korea

The Chinese came out of nowhere swarming around the flanks and defensive positions of the UN troops.

The Chinese Army entered the Korean War in earnest with a violent attack against the American and United Nations forces in North Korea.

The 300,000-man Chinese offensive caught the U.N. forces off guard, largely because of U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's belief that China would not openly enter the war, and vastly expanded the conflict.

An year earlier the communists had succeeded in conquering China to communism. With Mao Zedong as the new leader of China, it was an enigma.

Nobody was sure what position China would take in the Korean War if North Korea shared the border with China

President of the US Harry Truman so concered about China's intervention, he ordered McArthur not to approach the Yalu River; the border between China and North Korea.

To be sure, MacArthur's forces had been battling smaller units of Chinese forces fighting alongside North Korean troops since late October. The belief was that these soldiers were volunteers, no doubt countenanced by the Chinese government, but not acting for it.

Armistice Agreement

The Korean Armistice Agreement is the armistice which ended the Korean War.

The document, signed by US Lt Gen William K Harrison and his counterpart from the North's army, General Nam Il, said it was aimed at a ceasefire "until a final peaceful settlement is achieved".

The armistice was signed on July 27, 1953, and was designed to "insure a complete cessation of hostilities and of all acts of armed force in Korea until a final peaceful settlement is achieved."

The signed armistice established the Korean Demilitarized Zone (de facto a new border between the two nations), put into force a cease-fire, and finalized repatriation of prisoners of war.

The Demilitarized Zone runs not far from the 38th parallel, which separated North and South Korea before the war.

Leading to President of South Korea boasting on an interview on attacking North Korea

In an interview with United Press, on 7th October 1949, Syngman Rhee boasted that the South Korean army could take the North Korean capital of Pyongyang within three days. On the 1st November, the New York Herald Tribune reported that Syn Sung Mo, the South Korean War Minister had declared that his army was ready and waiting to push into North Korea. There had already been a considerable number of border incidents.

North Korea saw this as an excuse and the trigger for the war.

Who were the key people in this event?

The President of South Korea was Syngman Rhee, a man who had spent

30 years in the United States and who had been brought back to South

Korea to head the puppet government set up by the Americans. Syngman

Rhee abolished the press and liquidated the political opposition with

brutal violence.

Kim Il Sung (1912-94) was the dictatorial leader of North Korea. In the early years of the Cold War, Kim sought to reunify all of Korea under his own Communist leadership. Kim led North Korea throughout the Korean War, at different times nearly achieving victory and nearly falling to defeat. He agreed to the armistice of 1953, and ruled his country with an iron fist for another 40 years. In the later years of his regime, North Korea slid farther and farther into poverty and authoritarianism.

Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) became the 33rd President of the United States. The president's "Truman Doctrine" committed the United States to a policy of supporting foes of Communism everywhere in the world. Truman's failure to lead the United States to victory in the Korean War led to a severe decline in support for the president's policies among the American people.

General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), one of the most powerful military officers in modern American history. In Korea, MacArthur organized a brilliant amphibious attack behind enemy lines at Inchon, nearly allowing the United States to win the war in the fall of 1950. However, MacArthur badly underestimated the threat of Chinese intervention, and was caught completely off-guard by the Chinese advance of November 1950. His forces thrown into retreat, MacArthur demanded a massive retaliation—possibly involving nuclear weapons—against China itself. President Truman denied his request, fearing such an escalation would lead to World War III.

What was the reason for the New Zealand's involvement?

The reason for New Zealand's involvement is