That would depend on three things, 1, the Soviet Union not walking out ofIn 1950, in the early onset of the Korean War, what if the China, and to a lesser extent, the Soviet Union, never enters the Korean War on the side of North Korea, leaving it alone to fight against South Korea and the United Nations?
Is it plausible that as a POD, threats of nuclear warfare from the United States (as did happen in OTL) could've forced the USSR and/or China to back down?
It would also require the Soviets to veto the resolution that called for the UNThis is actually quite easy to bring about. All that has to happen is for the UN (i.e. 8th Army) unit's to stop at the 50 mile demarkation line delared by Mao. There may well have been a chance to get the line moved to 50 KM with a bit of back channel discussion. War is over before Christmas 1950 (actually, war is over before Thanksgiving).
MAo didn't really WANT to engage the West. He was, however, justifiably worred about the Western forces rolling right into China, hence the 50 mile buffer he tried to impose.
The line of demarcation between North and South Korea is actually the 38thwell, if we assume that China doesn't get involved but MacArthur is still in charge, then won't that mean that NK gets completely conquered? Hard to see Mao just letting that happen. OTOH, if the allies simply stopped somewhere on a line set roughly on the 40th Parallel (an idea I've often proposed on here) and annexed everything south of that to SK, and left everything north of it as a rump NK, then China has little reason to get involved. This smaller NK would be horribly unviable, unable to feed itself and likely soaking up a huge amount of aid from the USSR and China....
The line of demarcation between North and South Korea is actually the 38th
Parallel. It runs through the building where the UN and North Koreans meet to hold peace talks since 1952.
The line of demarcation between North and South Korea is actually the 38th
Parallel. It runs through the building where the UN and North Koreans meet to hold peace talks since 1952.
That is really not relevant to the matter being discussed.It would also require the Soviets to veto the resolution that called for the UN to send troops in the first the place. The Soviet Union had walked out of the Security Council about two days before the vote and didn't return, as I said before.