"U.S. imperialism is a paper tiger! ”On the eve of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the whole world believed that the US ** team was the most powerful armed force in the world, and they won two world wars. But in North Korea, the Chinese People's Volunteers fought a big war with the steel torrent of the United States with their own flesh and blood.
The final result made the whole world stunned, the Chinese people defeated the powerful US ** team, the two sides had to sign an armistice agreement, and North Korea was divided into two, generally speaking, in the ordinary people's perception, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was over, and the volunteers naturally returned to China and returned to the People's Liberation Army.
However, few people know that the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea ended in 1953, but the volunteers returned to China in 1958, which means that the establishment of the volunteers still existed for five years after the end of the war. What did the volunteers do in North Korea during the intervening four or five years? Why did they go home in 1958?
The Korean War was actually divided into three phases.
The first phase began on June 25, 1950, when the North Korean People's Army (KPA) launched an offensive against Syngman Rhee's group and soon occupied Seoul, the capital of South Korea, in a unified civil war on the Korean Peninsula itself.
The second stage was the entry of the US military into the war, and the South Korean Syngman Rhee clique could not defeat it and called for US assistance. MacArthur's Inchon landing cut off the KPA, and all logistics were cut off, leading to a complete rout of the KPA. Subsequently, the U.S. and South Korean armies rushed to attack, and the Korean People's Army was completely defeated, and the U.S. troops directly ignited the flames of war to the Yalu River.
In order to ensure the security of our own borders, hundreds of thousands of Chinese volunteers entered Korea to fight the US troops and quickly drove the US troops back to the 38th parallel.
Subsequently, a confrontation situation was formed between our army and the US military on the 38th parallel, and the two sides went back and forth several times, but the results were not great, so in the end only China, the United States, the DPRK, and the ROK sat down at the negotiating table for negotiations.
After more than a year of negotiations, and even in the autumn of 1952, the Battle of Shangganling was launched in an attempt to use military pressure to get China and North Korea to compromise, but in the end the US military still failed.
In July 1953, the armistice agreement was officially signed, and the Korean War ended, but the volunteers could not return to China for the time being.
Although the armistice agreement was signed, it does not mean that everything is over, after all, neither the United States, nor South Korea, nor even North Korea is actually not very willing to accept such an outcome, so the US military has made many small moves in the withdrawal of troops.
At the beginning, the US military hoped to sign the "Interim Supplementary Agreement on the Armistice Agreement" with our country, which stipulated:
From 72 hours after the entry into force of the agreement, the parties to the war began to withdraw all military forces from the demilitarized zone, as well as the ** system; Within 10 days of the entry into force of the agreement, the belligerents withdrew all military forces and systems from the islands and seas of the DPRK.
To put it simply, the two sides of North and South Korea began to retreat, and the two American troops and volunteers came to help naturally withdraw from North Korea and withdraw their troops. At the beginning, China hoped to sign this agreement, after all, the volunteers suffered heavy losses, and the country was in dire need of development, and there was no economic strength to continue fighting.
It is very important for our country to ensure peace along the border, but unexpectedly, the US military has played a hooligan, leaving a large number of US troops south of the 38th parallel, and even setting up military bases for the air force and navy.
In this way, the pressure on North Korea will be too great, and our troops will not dare to withdraw their troops. In this way, the US military and our army said that they were withdrawing troops, but as a result, both sides were involved in North Korea, and they shouted to each other every day why don't you withdraw, but in fact they did not dare to withdraw.
Later, the United States signed the "ROK-US Mutual Defense Treaty" with the ROK**, which provided a legal basis for the long-term stationing of US troops in the ROK. As a result, China had to sign the "Sino-DPRK Economic and Cultural Cooperation Agreement" with the DPRK, which also provided a legal basis for the volunteers.
In this way, the two sides fought across the 38th parallel, and although there was no military struggle, the political and cultural struggle behind it was also non-stop. At the United Nations, Japan is also fighting against the United States, trying to make the Korean armistice and the withdrawal of Chinese and American troops completely implemented.
Although the war ended, the number of Chinese volunteers who remained in Korea from 1953 to 1958 still reached 250,000.
During the years-long war, the land of Korea was devastated, both the south and the north experienced a lot of war, including Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, and Seoul, the capital of South Korea, which experienced several battles between the two sides, and the resumption of production became an important matter under such circumstances.
So in the context of the armistice, the Volunteer Army Command, under the call of the first, began to call on the volunteers to show that they would go out of the barracks to help the Korean people build their homes.
Since the beginning of August 1953, various units of the Chinese People's Volunteers have been constantly rotated, and those who have money have contributed money and others have contributed people to help the Korean people build water conservancy, grow crops, and build houses, so as to help the Korean people completely rebuild their homeland.
At the same time, the country has also begun to contribute money and efforts to help the DPRK to carry out modernization and industrialization, and it can be said that the industrialization of the DPRK began with the help of our country.
On the one hand, the purpose of helping the DPRK to build the DPRK is to provide a northern barrier for New China, and on the other hand, it is also to solve the problem of feeding the 250,000 volunteers.
After all, there are so many people, if the supplies continue to come from the country, the country will not be able to bear it. Under the call of the first army, the volunteers launched a large-scale production campaign, farming their own land and raising pigs, and almost every company-level unit has its own pigsty and vegetable field.
It is precisely for this reason that the volunteers were able to stay in Korea for five years and then confront the US military for five years.
The change in the form of North Korea was mainly due to the change in the overall international situation in 1957, the death of Stalin and the coming to power of Khrushchev, his great power chauvinism and expansionist ambitions were even greater than Stalin's, and even tried to interfere and control China.
At the same time, things have become more common on the part of the United States, and Europe and Japan have begun to gradually rebuild from the ruins in an attempt to attack the ruling order of the United States. Coupled with the impact of the economic crisis, the United States is no longer concerned about North Korea.
In this international situation, the possibility of another war in Korea is already very small, and after a premonition that North Korea can no longer fight, it is time for the volunteers to return home. In November 1957, ** met with North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il Sung in the Soviet Union to formalize the withdrawal of the Volunteer Army.
The first batch of volunteers who had remained since 1958 began to withdraw from North Korea in an orderly manner, until October 26, 1958, when the last withdrawn Chinese volunteers arrived in the Chinese border city of Dandong, and our heroes returned home.