North Korean General Nam II signed for the communists, and Kim II Sung and General
Peng Dehuai, the communist commander in chief, counter-signed, the latter as CPV commander rather than as a Chinese state representative.
Lieutenant General William Kelly Harrison Jr., representing the United Nations Command, North Korean General Nam Il and
Peng Dehuai, commander of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army.
troops; and
Peng Dehuai, commander of the Chinese forces, who called themselves "volunteers." The South promised to observe the cease-fire but did not sign because it held out hopes of unifying the Korean Peninsula.
Nam Il, as well as the commander of the Chinese People's Volunteers,
Peng Dehuai. The delegates affixed their signatures to the 18 copies of the agreement written in three languages.
A telegram was sent that day to People's Liberation Army (PLA) Commander
Peng Dehuai, to the party Central Committee, and to "every unit to alert them and require timely reports of any similar situations.
It's very serious," said Zhang Ming, an expert on domestic politics at Beijing's Renmin University, noting that the fall from grace of earlier prominent military leaders like Lin Biao and
Peng Dehuai were not related to corruption issues.
The commander,
Peng Dehuai, a veteran of the Eighth Route Army that had fought the Japanese and the Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek, was among the PLA's most respected commanders.
When in 1959
Peng Dehuai, an officer in the Chinese army, wrote a letter to Chairman Mao about the famine, Mao dismissed Peng from the army.
Chinese General
Peng Dehuai bitterly observed that had the communists controlled the skies during these earlier offensives, "the American and British invaders would already have been eliminated in Korea." The truth was that in their effort to stop communist aggression, U.S.
The Great Leap Forward, the purge of
Peng Dehuai, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen incident are all interpreted in terms of the party usurping the state's authority.
At the Lushan conference in 1959, he responded to
Peng Dehuai's generally realistic criticisms by destroying his career.