Preface:
The situation on the Korean Peninsula has recently heated up. According to foreign media reports, South Korea and the US military stationed in South Korea plan to hold an unprecedented military exercise in early November to respond to North Korea's previous launch of the missile . There is no doubt that this move will inevitably further stimulate North Korea and make the security situation on the Korean Peninsula worse.
The so-called mouse shit broke a pot of soup. For the security situation in Northeast Asia region, the US troops stationed in South Korea are just that rat shit. Whenever the relationship between North Korea and South Korea is tense, it makes people can’t help but think about a question. At that time, China, the United States and North Korea signed a ceasefire agreement at , Banmen Store, . Why didn’t we pick out this “mouse shit”?
To put it bluntly, after the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea ended, why did the armistice agreement signed by the two sides not include the withdrawal of the United States from South Korea, and only the volunteers withdrawal of the troops from North Korea? Isn’t this an “unequal agreement”?
1. The prerequisite for the withdrawal of troops for a long-term garrison is a ceasefire. Therefore, the question of why the United States has never withdrawn from South Korea can be traced back to the armistice agreement signed by the three parties of China, North Korea and the United States in Panmunjom in 1953.
Korean Armistice Agreement Signature
Banmendian Armistice Agreement is a temporary ceasefire agreement. Originally, all parties expected that the Panmundian Armistice Agreement would become the beginning of a peaceful resolution of the Korean Peninsula issue, but no one expected that the United States blatantly broke the contract just three months later.
Panmunjom Armistice Agreement was signed on July 27, 1953. In addition to stipulating that the armies of both sides cease fire on all fronts, and each retreats several kilometers to fully break off contact, there is another very important one. , that is, the relevant parties must hold political meetings within 3 months after the signing of the Panmunjom Armistice Agreement, discussing the complete end of the Korean Peninsula War and the withdrawal of foreign troops.
The origin of the Korean War is a matter of unification on the Korean Peninsula. Therefore, the war must be ended, unless both North and South Korea give up the idea of unification, or one of them agrees to be unified, the war can be ended politically. The signing of the Panmunjom ceasefire agreement is to provide both North and South Korea with a basis for a peaceful resolution of the Korean Peninsula issue.
However, on October 26, 1953, when representatives of all parties were preparing to start the political consultation meeting, the United States unilaterally withdrew, which was actually blatantly violating the terms of the United States' own commitment in the Panmunjom Armistice Agreement.
Of course, Americans can't say that they openly tell the world that we are going to breach the contract, because breach of contract requires war, and they cannot defeat the volunteer army in war.
The reason given by the Americans was that it was not the United States who participated in the Korean War but the United Nations forces. Therefore, the Political Consultative Conference on the Korean Peninsula should be held at the United Nations. But at the same time, they insisted that the new China at that time was not a member of the United Nations, so China could not attend the meeting.
Panmunjom Armistice Agreement was launched by the Volunteer Army Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea . During the negotiations, if the Chinese representative is not present and the Korean People's Army has no confidence when facing the United Nations Army, how can we talk to South Korea and the United States?
Volunteer Army captured US troops
So the US move can only prove that it does not want to promote the political consultation meeting on the Korean Peninsula, because it must talk about the issue of foreign troops withdrawing. They did not want to withdraw troops from South Korea in the root cause. How can we talk about this?
After that, the two sides were in a stalemate on this issue. Britain and France were worried that not negotiating with China might cause war on the Korean Peninsula again. Therefore, together with the Soviet Union, they put pressure on the United States, and finally forced the United States to agree to invite China to attend the Geneva meeting in the form of a special representative.
In 1954, the Geneva Conference was held. Prime Minister Zhou Enlai led a diplomatic delegation to Geneva, Switzerland to attend the conference. This was the first time that New China participated in an international conference to determine the regional pattern as a major power.
At this meeting, China still advocated that all foreign troops, including the Volunteer Army, should gradually withdraw troops from the Korean Peninsula in proportion, but the United States only agreed to actually achieve a long-term armistice on the Korean Peninsula and did not agree to withdraw troops, so this issue was temporarily shelved.
At that time, the United Nations troops led by the United States did not withdraw, and of course the volunteers could not withdraw all of them. Therefore, from July 1953 to early 1958, although North Korea did not fight in the past five years, the volunteer army did not withdraw all of them, and some of them were stationed in North Korea.
This was not until 1957, when Chairman Mao visited the Soviet Union, he and the North Korean leaders completely finalized the full withdrawal of the volunteer army from North Korea. So how did the United States cheat and refuse to withdraw its troops at this time?
2. Funny reversal
In November 1957, Chairman Mao led a delegation to visit the Soviet Union for the second time to participate in the 40th anniversary of the victory of the October Revolution. The North Korean leader also led a delegation to attend the celebration.
During his visit to the Soviet Union, Chairman Mao discussed with the North Korean leader, believing that the situation on the Korean Peninsula had stabilized and that the long-term stationing of the volunteer army in North Korea is not a solution. In addition, if China announces its withdrawal, it can put the United States, which insists on stationing troops in South Korea in diplomacy, and force the United States to withdraw its troops from South Korea.
Based on the above considerations, in February 1958, China announced a comprehensive and thorough withdrawal of troops from North Korea and launched an offensive against the United States in international public opinion. On the one hand, it publicized as much as possible that China's withdrawal was to allow North Korea and South Korea to resolve the Korean Peninsula issue within its own nation and achieve permanent peace. On the other hand, it sent diplomatic notes to the United States through various channels, demanding that the United States also withdraw troops from South Korea.
This action quickly attracted the attention of the international community and the United States, but after careful study, the US military and the State Department believed that it was still impossible to withdraw troops from North Korea.
The US military means that China is close to North Korea, the United States is far from South Korea, and the political systems of China and the United States are different. China has completed its withdrawal of troops and can deploy it at any time, but if the United States withdraws its troops, it will be extremely difficult to deploy it again. In addition, the United States also needs to use the military deployed in South Korea to ensure military deterrence within Northeast Asia.
and The US State Department means that China takes the initiative to withdraw its troops in an all-round way and publicizes it to the international community, which is to place the United States at a disadvantage in international public opinion, establish the image of China's sincere help, and the United States has ulterior motives. At that time, the Cold War of was in full swing. The US State Department also felt that this was the socialist camp promoting its "brotherhood", and attacking the capitalist countries allies, there was only a negative image of interests.
Based on these two opinions, the Americans proposed a so-called "attack instead of defense" diplomatic plan, which is to ask China to explain in detail how to hold a political meeting on the Korean Peninsula after China withdraws its troops.
The so-called "political meeting" here is actually the "political meeting" stipulated in the Panmunjom Armistice Agreement that must be held within 3 months.
As mentioned above, the Panmunjom Armistice Agreement stipulates that a political meeting should be held within 3 months to discuss the withdrawal of the United Nations and the Volunteers. However, the United States did not want to withdraw its troops at that time, so it found a new China that was not a member of the United Nations and unilaterally withdrew from the meeting, which was supposed to be held, which failed to hold the Political Consultative Conference on the Korean Peninsula.
Now China has voluntarily withdrawn its troops, and the United States is at a disadvantage in international public opinion, and they have taken the initiative to mention political meetings. The implication is naturally that the Korean Peninsula political conference was not held, and both North and South Korea did not agree to give up unification. The war may break out again at any time. How can we withdraw our troops?
North Korean missile
So far, the US position has taken a funny reversal. They were the ones who previously disagreed with the political meeting. Later, they used the excuse of not holding a meeting of the political conference and did not agree to withdraw the troops.
Although China strongly condemns and opposes this rogue style of play internationally, there is nothing we can do about it.Diplomatic struggles, many times, are reasonable and unreasonable. What else can we do?
3. Conclusion
The last question is, since the US military insists on not withdrawing troops, why should we complete the withdrawal as promised instead of leaving a unit in North Korea and confronting the US military?
The reasons for this are very complicated. The Joint Chiefs of Staff pointed out that China is close to North Korea and the United States is far from South Korea. Once the war on the Korean Peninsula rekindles and the US military intervenes, we can quickly fill the position at any time, which is one of them.
Secondly, it is also related to the different relationship patterns of South Korea, the United States and China and North Korea. The United States regards South Korea as its pawn, so it tries its best to station troops in South Korea. However, there is a socialist brotherhood between China and North Korea. When there is no war on the Korean Peninsula, it is inconvenient to station troops for a long time itself.
Korea and US military exercises
Of course, these are not the most important things. The most important thing is that China and the United States have different long-term strategies.
1958, China's long-term strategy was to strive to develop its own economy, which was a strategic defense state in national defense. As long as the United States did not cause trouble and provoke war, it would be enough. It did not want to simply compete with the United States on the Korean Peninsula. Opposing the invasion of the Korean Peninsula by US imperialism is our means of defending our country, not our goal.
To put it simply, China has no idea of going against the right thing.
But the United States is different. As the leader of a capitalist country, the purpose of the United States' troops to South Korea is to oppose socialist China and Russia. To put it bluntly, the US military came to find trouble. The difference in
strategy determines that if China does not withdraw and continues to station troops in North Korea, it will follow the wishes of the United States. It wishes you to confront it every day and affect the domestic economy.
Facts have proved that in the following decades, the United States has caused trouble everywhere, fighting this and that, garrisoning all over the world, but it has plagued its own debts and left its halo behind. New China is focusing on developing itself and becoming the world's second largest economy. Now it can be on par with the United States.
This so-called "you hit yours, I hit mine" idea is a specific manifestation of the game between great powers.
