Korean war just keeps going

This is a bit out there in ASB, but it could have been possible. What if instead of otl where the two sides stopped fighting, nether side will stop fighting and the 2 Koreas just kept fighting?
 
Korea and Vietnam

For how long? Because if the Koreas fight well into the 60's, that might change some things about Vietnam.
 
A lot depends on the details of how/why the war is still going on. The simplest solution is to have one or both sides decide that anything short of a "One Korea" solution is unacceptable, so the war continues until either the UN or China & North Korea manage obtain a decisive victory.

Of course increasing the length and intensity of the war also risks escalating the conflict. A nuclear exchange in the 1950's would be a clear win for the US, but it wouldn't be pleasant for anyone.
 
Both countries were battered by the truce it can't go on till the 60s without either economic collapse or the North being fully under Chinas control and South Korea under Americas.
 
A clear signal was sent by Dwight Eisenhower that he would not allow the war to grind on and on. Both the Russians and the Chinese were made to realize that he would use any weapon in the US arsenal to end the fighting and the loss of American lives.
 
The Signal the the future President Eisenhower sent out during the campaign was that he was willing to do what ever it took to bring the Korean War to a successful conclusion. There was some speculation that that may have meant the dropping of an atomic Bomb or the Use of the Atomic Cannon.It would definitely mean that the dams and bridges on the Yalu River would be bomb and possibly a bombing of bases in Manchuria.

He was trying to send a signal to deal with President Truman as things wou;d be tougher if he became President. Still the Truce didn't come about until after Eisenhower became President.
 

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I odnt believe for a second the americans would have started WW3 over Korea.

I hardly doubt that Ike would have wanted to start another world war, especially with the US and to a much lesser extent the Soviets and British having their own bombs.

That being said, despite the better information that we know of today, at the time, so politicians and generals still thought that a limited use of the bomb, ie using say 3 or 4 weapons only, could be done without starting a large broader war.

The targets would have either been located in North Korean territory or China, as despite offering supplies and advisors, dragging the Soviets into a fight would be a guarantee to escalate, regardless of what the North Koreans and Chinese do.
 
Well we weren't going to throw in the towel and we weren't going to keep sending men to die for a draw, so the US would have used nuclear weapons had the communists not been willing to come to the table. As for the OP the only way I can see a continued war is if the UN and the Soviets and Chinese leave and the world lets the Koreans duke it out by themselves.
 
This is a bit out there in ASB, but it could have been possible. What if instead of otl where the two sides stopped fighting, nether side will stop fighting and the 2 Koreas just kept fighting?


Its not ASB its reality, the DPRK and ROK are still legally at war and continued to actively fight each other for nearly a quarter century after the truce. Google the Second Korean War it was an armed strugle along the DMZ from 1966-77 that resulted in a large swath of korea being designated a hostile fire zone by the US due to the danger posed to troops stationed there. The North Koreans and South Koreans were actively engaged in battles along the southern half of the DMZ for over twenty five years following the 1953 truce. Heck, in early 1968 the DPRK launched a commando raid on the ROK's president in Seoul itself and got within fifty meters of President Park himself. Make no mistake the two koreas remained actively combative for decades after the truce and are offically still at war to this very day.
 
Its not ASB its reality, the DPRK and ROK are still legally at war and continued to actively fight each other for nearly a quarter century after the truce. Google the Second Korean War it was an armed strugle along the DMZ from 1966-77 that resulted in a large swath of korea being designated a hostile fire zone by the US due to the danger posed to troops stationed there. The North Koreans and South Koreans were actively engaged in battles along the southern half of the DMZ for over twenty five years following the 1953 truce. Heck, in early 1968 the DPRK launched a commando raid on the ROK's president in Seoul itself and got within fifty meters of President Park himself. Make no mistake the two koreas remained actively combative for decades after the truce and are offically still at war to this very day.

I think he meant them being constantly at all-out war. If that would be the case, by now Korea would be a crater-dotted wasteland that would be a brown mark from space, and probably irradiated as well. Sooner or later, the US would have got out the nukes or simply thrown their entire strategic bomber force at it.
 
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