It indicated that Truman was prepared to stick to the Truman Doctrine and the policy of containing communism.
It appeared that the superpowers did not want to turn the cold war into a 'hot war'. The soviets didnt become directly involved. The war didnt spread beyond Korea.
Marked the emergence of communist China as a world power. The chinese had prevented the USA from uniting Korea, and China became more friendly with the USSR.
UN had resisted an act of agression.
USSR hadnt been directly involved in the war, although it did supply weapons to the north
Korea was still divided as North and South and it appeared that the division was now permanent.
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