Re: Korean-War:UN Peace Keeping

[Ed Evanhoe <evanhoe@arbuckleonline.com>]

Ralph,

 >>At 06:54 AM 5/8/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi! I'm just curious, scholars says that the korean
>war is one of the successful Peace keeping enforcement
>of the United Nations. However, some scholars says
>that the Peace Keeping enforcement is a failure in the
>Korean War. Why is this so?<<

I don't know who the scholars saying it is failure are but I suspect it is, 
"Eye of the beholder."  If the peacekeeping mission failed at some point we 
would have a "2nd Korean War" to talk about.  Since this hasn't happened, 
logic says the peacekeeping mission succeeded, at least to this point in time.

On the other hand, since a peace treaty had never been signed and a state 
of war still exists between North & South, one could argue (not too 
convincingly) the peacekeeping mission failed.

Ed

Ed

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