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In a deliberate choice by the Truman Administration, the US-UN declare readiness for an armistice and a unilateral ceasefire at the first line reached shortly after liberating Seoul (which was very close to the eventual DMZ).

What happens from there.

Will the residual North Korean forces agree to a ceasefire, or try to continue the war?

If not, could North Koreans regenerate force and keep attacks going at a level that means fighting persists that requires prolonged American combat participation?

Will the South Koreans go north themselves? Will they do so in any significant numbers if the US is deliberately witholding support?

If a cease-fire works, at least in the short run, will this be regarded as a victory in the U.S.?

With less devastation and reconstruction to do, will North Korea be more inclined to initiate a rematch later in the 1950s, or in the 1960s? What would Mao and the post-Stalin leadership think, if so?

Stopping at the 38th parallel hasn't been discussed here since 2010.

[if past precedent is any guide - I bet within ten posts form now (should we be so lucky) more people will jump past the idea of stopping at the 38th and will bring up the idea of US-UN-ROK deliberately stopping at the "waist" of the Korean peninsula instead.)
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