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| 1954, Jan. 19 |
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| Despite bitter protests by the Communists, the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission began the transfer of some 22,000 non-Communist prisoners of war to the UN command. The prisoners were then freed on Jan. 22. | 1 |
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| Jan. 26 |
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| The U.S. Senate ratified the Mutual Security Treaty with South Korea. The pact obligated the U.S. to support South Korea in the event of attack, but not if South Korea attempted unification by force. | 2 |
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| May 20 |
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| Parliamentary elections gave Pres. Rhee's Liberal Party a narrow majority. | 3 |
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| June 5 |
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| At Geneva, Communist China urged that the Neutral Nations Advisory Commission, which had supervised the Korean armistice, also supervise the proposed elections in Korea. The U.S. termed the plan “completely fraudulent.” | 4 |
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| June 15 |
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| Sixteen non-Communist delegates at Geneva declared that since the Communists rejected the two fundamental principles for Korean unification and independence—the full power of the UN to repel aggression and to establish peace and “genuinely free elections”—further discussion “would serve no useful purpose.” | 5 |
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