Global attention to events on the Korean Peninsula has been striking in the past year. With an inter-Korean summit and an unprecedented US-DPRK summit, hopes of a final end to the Korean War have been renewed. Although these summits resulted in declarations which pronounced an end to the Korean War and an establishment of a peace regime, the declarations must not be mistaken as official peace treaties. Unlike a peace treaty, which is governed by international law, the two summit declarations are not governed by international law due to their lack of legality. Therefore, a clear distinction must be drawn between the declarations and a peace treaty. This paper aims to determine the legal status of the declarations and explain how they are merely non-binding political declarations. The paper then identifies and explores some of the legal implications of a Korean peace treaty.

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朝鲜战争的结束：2018 年首脑会议宣言的法律性质和正式朝鲜和平条约的影响

在过去的一年里，全球对朝鲜半岛事件的关注一直引人注目。随着朝韩首脑会议和史无前例的美朝首脑会谈，朝鲜战争最终结束的希望重新燃起。尽管这些首脑会议达成了宣布结束朝鲜战争和建立和平制度的宣言，但这些宣言绝不能被误认为是正式的和平条约。与受国际法约束的和平条约不同，两次首脑会议宣言由于缺乏合法性，不受国际法约束。因此，必须明确区分宣言和和平条约。本文旨在确定声明的法律地位，并解释它们如何仅仅是不具约束力的政治声明。