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...point of the U.N. proposal was that joint U.N.-Communist observation teams should be given access to all parts of Korea. Key point of the Communist proposal was that a joint armistice commission should be set up with, apparently, no authority to inspect anything but the 2½-mile buffer zone between the armies. A deadlock immediately ensued. Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy rejected the Red scheme as toothless. Lieut. General Nam II, the deadpan North Korean commander, rejected the U.N. plan as a "brazen interference" with the internal affairs of North Korea...
...Reds what they wanted-a tentative cease-fire line based on the present battlefront. If, within 30 days of Communist acceptance of this proposal, the remaining items on the truce agenda could be negotiated and settled, the tentative line would become a permanent line, with a 2½mile buffer zone astride it, and the armistice would be signed. The plan was no ultimatum. If no agreement should be reached in 30 days, a new tentative line would be drawn on the basis of the battlefront then existing, and the negotiators would start out again from there...
...premature optimism. The Reds suddenly proposed a line which almost coincided with the U.N. proposal along most of the front. The Red concession meant that the allies could keep their hard-won mountain terrain (including Heartbreak Ridge) in the center and east. The Communists also agreed to the simile buffer zone along the line suggested...
...deadlock. First, they repeated a previous offer to evacuate U.N.-held islands north of the 38th; they pointed out that this, plus their already proffered withdrawals on the central and eastern fronts, should be adequate compensation for Kaesong. The Reds refused. Next, the U.N. negotiators offered to pass the buffer zone directly through Kaesong-in other words, to make it a neutral city held by neither side. Again, the Reds refused. Finally, in mild desperation, the U.N. suggested that the line be left to drift with the battlefront and be adjusted as the last piece of business before signing...
...Location of the buffer zone between the opposing forces...