A Comprehensive Resolution
The United States and its other fellow members of the United Nations who participated in the Korean War met their objective of stopping communist incursion into the Republic of Korea and reestablished the border. The People's Army kept the UNC from holding territory belonging to the DPRK. In truth it appears that the losers of the war were the two Koreas, but moreso the DPRK, who failed to meet its goal to drive capitalist forces out of the oppressed ROK and welcome their southern brothers and sisters into the peace-loving embrace of Kim Il Sung's communist North Korea.
The resolution was an armistice signed on July 27, 1953. It was signed by the US, the DPRK and the PRC. The ROK and the DPRK signed a non-aggression treaty in 1991, but technically the war has never ended.
Although the Korean War Armistice Agreement stopped the fighting in 1953, it has yet to be replaced by a permanent settlement. A U.S initiative to convene, under the auspices of the United Nations Security Council in return for the verified dismantling of North Korea's nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, would:
- Meet the U.S requirement for a multilateral solution to the nuclear issue
- Address the fundamental source for insecurity for both Korea's (the unresolved state of war).
- Likely be supported by our allies and other regional states
- Leave the United States in a stronger position to deal with North Korea if it refuses a political approach to dismantling its weapons of mass destruction (WMD).