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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of World History</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of World History</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Всеобщая история</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2312-8127</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2312-833X</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">51043</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2312-8127-2026-18-2-152-174</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">WRSAUU</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Ideas and politics in history</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Идеи и политика в истории</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">The exchange of prisoners of war as a site of ideological confrontation during the Korean war</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Обмен военнопленными как арена идеологической борьбы в годы Корейской войны</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7728-7968</contrib-id><contrib-id contrib-id-type="spin">2804-0219</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Kim</surname><given-names>Natalia N.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Ким</surname><given-names>Наталья Николаевна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Candidate of Historical Sciences, Director of the International Center for Korean Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University ; Associate Professor, Institute of A sian and African Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат исторических наук, директор Международного центра корееведения, МГУ имени М.В. Ломоносова; доцент Института востоковедения и африканистики, НИУ ВШЭ</p></bio><email>nkim@iaas.msu.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Lomonosov Moscow State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Московский государственный университет имени М.В. Ломоносова</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">National Research University Higher School of Economics</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики»</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2026-07-01" publication-format="electronic"><day>01</day><month>07</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>18</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en"/><issue-title xml:lang="ru"/><fpage>152</fpage><lpage>174</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2026-07-06"><day>06</day><month>07</month><year>2026</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2026, Kim N.N.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2026, Ким Н.Н.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Kim N.N.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Ким Н.Н.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/world-history/article/view/51043">https://journals.rudn.ru/world-history/article/view/51043</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The Korean War (25.06.1950-27.07.1953) represents a multifaceted conflict of the Cold War era, in which the national interests of the two Korean states, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the Republic of Korea (ROK), became intricately intertwined with the interests of major powers - the USSR, the USA, and the People's Republic of China (PRC). From the very outbreak of the war on June 25, 1950, various proposals for achieving peace and restoring the status quo were put forward at the United Nations. However, for various reasons, the war became protracted. Truce talks commenced in July 1951 and concluded only two years later with the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement. One of the reasons for the prolonged negotiations was the disagreement between the sides regarding the exchange of prisoners of war. The aim of this study is to examine how the ideological confrontation between the sides of the military conflict (the USA and the ROK versus the DPRK, the PRC, and the USSR) influenced the negotiations on the POWs exchange and the subsequent treatment of repatriated prisoners in their home countries (on the examples of American and British POWs). As a result of the research, the author concludes that tens of thousands of POWs became object of ideological propaganda and manipulation by both the United States, commanding the UN forces, and the DPRK and the PRC. The ideological confrontation between the sides emerged as one of the primary factors of tension within the prisoner-of-war camps, threatening the lives and safety of the captives.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Корейская война (25.06.1950-27.07.1953) - многоплановый конфликт эпохи холодной войны, в котором национальные интересы двух корейских государств, КНДР и Республики Корея (РК), оказались сложным образом переплетены с интересами крупнейших держав: СССР, США, КНР. С самого начала войны (25 июня 1950 г.) в ООН выдвигались разные предложения по достижению мира и возвращения ситуации в статус-кво. Но по разным причинам война затянулась. Переговоры о перемирии стартовали в июле 1951 г., а завершились только 2 года спустя подписанием соглашения. Одной из причин затягивания переговоров было несогласие сторон по вопросу обмена военнопленными. Цель исследования - выяснить, каким образом идеологическое противостояние сторон военного конфликта (США, РК - КНДР, КНР, СССР) повлияло на переговоры по обмену военнопленными и дальнейшее отношение к военнопленным на родине после их репатриации (на примере американских и британских военнопленных). В результате исследования сделан вывод о том, что десятки тысяч военнопленных были объектом идеологической пропаганды и манипуляции со стороны как США, командующими силами ООН, так и КНДР и КНР. Идеологическое противостояние сторон стало одним из главных факторов напряжения внутри лагерей, угрожая жизни и безопасности военнопленных.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>DPRK</kwd><kwd>Republic of Korea</kwd><kwd>ideology</kwd><kwd>Cold War</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>КНДР</kwd><kwd>Республика Корея</kwd><kwd>идеология</kwd><kwd>холодная война</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta><fn-group/></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Kim B. Negotiation of POWs during the Korean War and the Chinese communists POWs’ choice. The Review of Korean History. 2016;123:177–210. (In Kor.).</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">김보영. 한국전쟁 포로협상과 중국군 포로의 선택 // 서학연구. 2016. Vol. 123. 쪽. 177–210. [Ким Б. Переговоры о военнопленных в годы Корейской войны и выбор военнопленных — китайских коммунистов] // Сохак ёнгу. 2016. Т. 123. 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