peace treaty
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peace treaties
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Like any peace treaty, however, the truce at Volkswagen relied on withdrawn threats, delayed decisions and a very carefully worded joint declaration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The two Koreas are technically still at war since they did not sign a peace treaty after the Korean War.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
That's a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War that ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Pyongyang is under multiple sets of sanctions over its nuclear programme, and the two Koreas remain technically at war because their 1950-53 conflict ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
On June 22, 1941, Hitler broke a peace treaty and invaded the Soviet Union, sending his army storming across the huge nation in a battlefront that stretched for over a thousand miles.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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