Ceasefire at Panmunjom, 27 July 1953 Overview of the ceasefire
process Not all wars are fought with complete victory as the
objective...Show caption Often one or both sides realise that
they do not have the strength, or are not willing to play the
price in lives and money, to occupy the enemy country and
dictate the peace terms. After a period of fighting it sometimes
becomes apparent that a negotiated peace is the best that can be
obtained. Within months of the Chinese intervention in the war
in October 1950, the United States came to the conclusion that
it would be too difficult to defeat the new and powerful enemy,
and that a negotiated peace was a better option. Its United
Nations allies agreed though South Korea opposed the decision.
The communist countries took another six months to come to the
same conclusion. Negotiations began on 10 July 1951 and
continued for two years until a ceasefire was agreed to on 27
July 1953. By then almost a million uniformed personnel from
both sides, and two million civil