This day is destined to be a historic and extraordinary day for China and North Korea. After two years and eight months of heroic fighting, the Chinese-North Korean Coalition forces finally defeated the arrogant United Nations forces led by the United States, whose weapons and equipment were far behind those of western countries, and forced them to sign an armistice agreement.
On 10 in the morning, the representatives of China, North Korea and the United States formally signed their names on the Korean Armistice Agreement and the Temporary Supplementary Agreement to the Armistice Agreement, announcing the end of the Korean War to the whole world!
However, it is puzzling that the armistice agreement lacks the signature of a representative, that is, the representative of South Korea, one of the countries involved in the Korean War.
Many people don't understand, even the United States signed an armistice agreement, why didn't the South Korean representative sign it? Has the South Korean representative forgotten the time? Or did the South Korean army betray the United States and want to fight alone?
Neither!
South Korea did not sign the armistice agreement for the simple reason that Li Chengwan, the then South Korean leader, did so on purpose to safeguard his presidency.
In Li Chengwan's view, as long as the United States does not sign, the United States will not withdraw its troops from South Korea at will in order to safeguard its interests in the Asia-Pacific region. Moreover, if the United States does not withdraw, his presidency will not be lost, and it can still be occupied all the time. Anyway, as long as the US military does not withdraw from South Korea, even if it does not sign, North Korea will not dare to attack.
As long as South Korea does not sign an armistice agreement, it means that the war with North Korea is not over. Therefore, once the US troops withdraw from South Korea, if North Korea is interested, it can attack South Korea again on the grounds that South Korea has not signed an armistice agreement. At that time, with the strength of South Korea, North Korea will definitely be unstoppable and will definitely be annexed. Once South Korea is occupied, the interests of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region will certainly be damaged. South Korea is the cornerstone of socialism for the United States against the Soviet Union. If South Korea is occupied by North Korea, it will be extremely unfavorable for the United States to control East Asia.
Therefore, for the United States, South Korea cannot be lost unless it is absolutely necessary.
Li Chengwan guessed this mentality of the United States, so he refused to sign the armistice agreement because he didn't want the United States to go at all. In Li Chengwan's view, as long as American troops don't withdraw from South Korea, no one dares to act in South Korea as an American spokesman, and his political opponents have no chance to oust him.
Li Chengwan became the president of South Korea, not because of the support of South Korea's local forces, nor because of his own strength, but only because of the support of the United States.
After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union divided north and south along the 38th parallel, with North Korea as the sphere of influence of the Soviet Union and South Korea as the sphere of influence of the United States. In order to properly control South Korea and prevent South Korea from resisting its control, the United States urgently needs a Korean with good reputation and loyalty to the United States as its spokesperson to rule South Korea.
At first, the United States wanted to support Jin Jiu, known as the "father of South Korea", as the first president of South Korea, because Jin Jiu had a high reputation in South Korea, and the local powerful families also supported him, making him the most suitable president. However, Jin Jiu is very resistant to American control over South Korea and is determined to make South Korea an independent country. As soon as he returned to China, he announced the legal system of the interim government in an attempt to replace it with the military and political departments of the United States. Therefore, after knowing Jin Jiu's thoughts, the United States gave him up decisively!
At this time, Li Chengwan entered the line of sight of American high-level. At that time, unlike Jin Jiu's clear opposition that the U.S. military takeover of South Korea must be an independent country, Li Chengwan supported the U.S. takeover of South Korea, clearly demonstrating its anti-Soviet and anti-* * stance.
In this way, Li Chengwan, who was deeply favored by the United States, successfully became the first president of South Korea with the support of the American government after the introduction of Truman Doctrine.
Under normal circumstances, if the US government does not interfere in the elections in South Korea, it will not be Li Chengwan's turn to be president, and Jin Jiu will be a gap that Li Chengwan will never cross. Li Chengwan has never had any prestige among the Korean people. His actions of betraying the country and seeking glory and defending traitors during the Japanese occupation period made the Korean people very disgusted with him. Only in the face of the absolute power of the United States, they can only compromise and be forced to recognize Li Chengwan's presidency.
It can be said that Li Chengwan's presidency depends entirely on the United States. Once the United States leaves him alone, the Korean people can coax him out of office.
For Li Chengwan, as long as American troops don't leave, his presidency will not be lost. Therefore, after the founding of the Republic of Korea, Li Chengwan's main focus was not on economic construction and improving people's livelihood, but on retaining the US military.
In order to keep American troops in South Korea, Li Chengwan made every effort to keep American troops in South Korea forever and protect his regime. From time to time, he clamored for the reunification of the North, forcing North Korea to lay heavy troops on the Korean-Korean border to guard against South Korea, so as to prevent the US troops from withdrawing from South Korea and not give up their support.
However, in the face of Li Chengwan's almost rogue approach, the United States did not change its original withdrawal plan at first. After all, its main interest is to have a Japan in Europe and Asia, and the US government doesn't want to spend too much energy in South Korea. Therefore, after June 1949, no matter what happened in Li Chengwan, the United States withdrew all its US troops stationed in South Korea as originally planned, leaving only a part of its military advisers to help Li Chengwan train Korean troops.
At this time, Li Chengwan began to get anxious. When he saw that the American army had actually retreated and its position was crumbling, in order to pull the American army back, Li Chengwan began to create conflicts on the 38th parallel to attract the attention of the United States and pull the American army back. However, it did not succeed. As the American ambassador to South Korea, Mujo, said, Li Chengwan is trying to keep American troops, rather than being more concerned about the improvement of its government and the improvement of people's lives. However, the United States only wants stability on the Korean Peninsula. Therefore, Li Chengwan's actions not only failed to bring American troops back to South Korea, but made the United States hesitate to increase its military assistance to South Korea. At one time, it even wanted to give up Li Chengwan and find another agent.
Just as the U.S. government was trying to find another agent, the South Korean Republican Party, which cooperated with Li Chengwan, began to oppose him, demanding that it be changed to the responsibility cabinet system to limit Li Chengwan's power. It can be said that at this time, Li Chengwan is facing internal and external troubles. If there is an accident, he is not far from stepping down!
However, just as Li Chengwan was about to step down, the Korean War broke out suddenly and the South Korean army was beaten out of the water. Even the capital Seoul was occupied by the North Korean army. At this time, although the situation is extremely unfavorable to South Korea, it is tantamount to a rescue for Li Chengwan.
After the outbreak of the war, Li Chengwan not only took the opportunity to integrate internal affairs and unite people's hearts, but the key point was that the US military did not leave and also intervened in the Korean War.
After the United States intervened in the Korean War, Li Chengwan strongly urged the American troops to cross the 38th parallel, so as to nail the American troops firmly in South Korea and thus stabilize their own political power.
Why is Li Chengwan so eager for American troops to cross the 38th parallel?
It's all because of his selfishness. First of all, if the US military can cross the 38th parallel and then reunify the Korean Peninsula, then he will be the first minister of the South Korean Unification Ministry, and then he can rely on this prestige to stabilize the presidency. Secondly, it doesn't matter even if the United States can't unify the peninsula. As long as the United States crosses the 38th parallel, the war will not end. If the war is not over, the US military will not withdraw from South Korea, so that he can still sit on the presidency.
Li Chengwan's idea is good, but since July 195 1, the war has entered a state of fighting and talking, and it is only a matter of time before the war ends. Cease-fire is absolutely unacceptable to Li Chengwan, which is bent on relying on this war to force the US troops to stay in South Korea, thus consolidating its position. Therefore, Li Chengwan resolutely opposes the US military peace talks and strongly urges the United States to cross the 38th parallel again.
However, leaders of small countries like Li Chengwan naturally cannot control the game between big countries, and the United States will not be at the mercy of its younger brothers.
1953 in June, Eisenhower was elected president of the United States. Because he wanted to end the war as soon as possible, the United States began peace talks with China and North Korea. During this period, although Li Chengwan tried every means to obstruct the peace talks, even at the expense of American troops, and sent Korean troops to attack our China Volunteers alone, it could not obstruct the peace talks. On July 27th, the United States formally signed the Korean Armistice Agreement with China and North Korea.
However, even so, Li Chengwan is still unwilling to sign an armistice agreement. He believes that as long as he doesn't sign, the US military can't withdraw from South Korea at will, thus ensuring his ruling position.
Subsequently, with Li Chengwan's efforts, the US military began to care about the interests of the Asia-Pacific region. In June, 5438+00, South Korea and the United States signed the Korea-US Joint Defense Treaty, which formally established the alliance status between the two sides and the US military stationed in South Korea. Since then, although South Korea lost in the Korean War, it was a victory for Li Chengwan, because he kept the American troops.
However, although American troops were retained, things did not develop as Li Chengwan expected, and he could keep the presidency. 1On April 27th, 960, Li Chengwan was finally abandoned by both the Korean people and the United States because of his reckless behavior in South Korea, and was forced to resign as president. On May 29th, he went into exile in Hawaii, USA, and could not return to his native land until he died of old age.