About: Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission

An Entity of Type: Thing, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

After the Korean War, prisoner exchange was important for both sides. The UN wanted voluntary repatriation, while People's Republic of China wanted forced repatriation. By May 1952, despite several efforts the issue was deadlocked. Several plans were put forth and the UN eventually agreed to follow then Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's and Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon's prisoner-of-war settlement proposal which called for a Neutral Nations' Repatriation Commission (NNRC). The proposal was rejected by China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on 3 December 1952. UN Commander General Mark W. Clark then proposed an exchange of sick and wounded soldiers which was agreed to by the Communists. Thus, Operation Little Switch went underway. This was the first exchange of s

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • After the Korean War, prisoner exchange was important for both sides. The UN wanted voluntary repatriation, while People's Republic of China wanted forced repatriation. By May 1952, despite several efforts the issue was deadlocked. Several plans were put forth and the UN eventually agreed to follow then Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's and Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon's prisoner-of-war settlement proposal which called for a Neutral Nations' Repatriation Commission (NNRC). The proposal was rejected by China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on 3 December 1952. UN Commander General Mark W. Clark then proposed an exchange of sick and wounded soldiers which was agreed to by the Communists. Thus, Operation Little Switch went underway. This was the first exchange of soldiers which began that year on 20 April. (en)
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 43778629 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 5828 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1122518758 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdfs:comment
  • After the Korean War, prisoner exchange was important for both sides. The UN wanted voluntary repatriation, while People's Republic of China wanted forced repatriation. By May 1952, despite several efforts the issue was deadlocked. Several plans were put forth and the UN eventually agreed to follow then Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's and Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon's prisoner-of-war settlement proposal which called for a Neutral Nations' Repatriation Commission (NNRC). The proposal was rejected by China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on 3 December 1952. UN Commander General Mark W. Clark then proposed an exchange of sick and wounded soldiers which was agreed to by the Communists. Thus, Operation Little Switch went underway. This was the first exchange of s (en)
rdfs:label
  • Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License