The two Southeast Asian nations signed a peace deal last month, which the US president took credit for
Thailand has suspended a peace deal with Cambodia reached just over two weeks ago that US President Donald Trump claimed to have helped broker.
Bangkok announced the decision on Monday after four Thai soldiers patrolling the border with Cambodia were injured by a landmine, which Thai authorities allege was recently laid. One soldier reportedly lost a foot in the incident.
The neighboring Southeast Asian countries inked a peace deal late last month in Malaysia. following a five-day-long military flare-up in a long-simmering colonial-era border dispute. Trump was present for the signing and took credit for the initiative.
During a press conference on Monday, Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul announced that he was suspending the deal and the next steps of its implementation.
“What happened demonstrates hostility towards Thailand and a continued security threat... What we have been pursuing must now be put on hold until clarity is restored,” he said.
Defense Minister Nattapon Narkphanit claimed that, because the patrol path on which the incident happened was regularly checked, the mine must have been freshly laid, according to the Bangkok Post.
“This is an act by a Cambodia that does not observe the declaration signed on October 26, 2025,” he was quoted as saying.
Bangkok has reportedly sent a formal protest to Phnom Penh over the incident.
It has also put on hold plans to repatriate 18 captured Cambodian soldiers later this week, which was the next step in implementing the peace deal.
Trump has claimed credit for ending eight wars since the beginning of his second term: Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, Congo and Rwanda, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Pakistan and India, and most recently between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
However, New Delhi has denied any external involvement in its ceasefire with Islamabad, and a number of other “wars” Trump has cited never broke out into actual fighting.
Nevertheless, the US president has argued that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts.
