The Korean Armistice Agreement is the military agreement that ended the fighting of the Korean War. It was signed on 27 July 1953 by a United States Army lieutenant general for the United Nations Command, by North Korean leader Kim Il Sung and General Nam Il for the Korean People's Army, and by Peng Dehuai for the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, and it took effect at 22:00 local time the same day. Its stated aim was a complete cessation of hostilities and of all acts of armed force in Korea until a final peaceful settlement is reached. It created the Korean Demilitarized Zone along roughly the 38th parallel, put a ceasefire into force and finalized the return of prisoners of war. South Korea never signed it, and no peace treaty has followed. China later withdrew from the Military Armistice Commission in 1994, leaving North Korea and the United Nations Command as the active parties.
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In October 1996, the U.N. Security Council, by a statement of the President of the Security Council, Honduras, urged that the Armistice Agreement should be fully observed until replaced by a new peace mechanism.
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