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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Historical interpretations of the end of the Korean War traditionally emphasise the importance of the election of President Dwight D Eisenhower, the leadership change in the Soviet Union, and the PRC's desire to focus on modernisation compounded by the failure to achieve its war aims. Robert Barnes, however, argues that these explanations fail to take into account a key additional factor: the UN negotiations in late 1952 regarding the thorny issue of the post-war fate of prisoners of war. It was the eventual adoption of a resolution promoted by India and supported by the Commonwealth, and its final acceptance by both belligerent sides, that paved the way for a ceasefire.
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