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| 1953, Jan. 5 |
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| Prime Minister Winston Churchill, at the beginning of a visit in the U.S., declared his government's opposition to any “indefinite extension” of the Korean War into Communist China. | 1 |
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| Feb. 25 |
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| The new U.S. delegate to the UN, Henry Cabot Lodge, told the UN political committee that the Eisenhower administration firmly accepted India's truce proposal for Korea. | 2 |
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| March 2 |
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| Soviet foreign minister Andrei Vishinsky announced to the UN political committee that no Korean armistice except on the Communists' terms would be acceptable. | 3 |
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| April 26 |
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After agreements in March and April on prisoner exchanges, truce talks were resumed at P'anmunj m. | 4 |
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| June 9 |
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| South Korea's assembly, rejecting the impending armistice, adopted a resolution calling for preparation to “advance north to unify Korea,” but the government was persuaded (July 11) in talks with the U.S. to accept the proposed armistice terms. | 5 |
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| July 26 |
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| The armistice was signed at P'anmunjm, to go into effect the next day. It provided for a demilitarized zone along the North and South Korean boundary, a joint UN-Communist military armistice commission, and a neutral nations supervisory commission to enforce the armistice terms. | 6 |
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| July 27 |
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| The 16 nations that fought in Korea under the UN signed a declaration made public on Aug. 7, promising to resume fighting in the event of any new aggression there. | 7 |
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| Oct. 25 |
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| Talks opened in P'anmunjm between UN delegates Arthur H. Dean and Communist representatives to arrange for the time and locations of a Korean peace conference. | 8 |
| Korean casualties in the war numbered 1.3 million in the South and about 1.5 million in the North; massive destruction of homes, factories, roads, and fields was sustained; many cities were demolished. | 9 |
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