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...Silence. When, after a five-day lapse (longest so far), the teams faced each other again in Kaesong, the Reds trotted out their moth-eaten demands for a buffer zone along the 38th parallel, as if they were brand-new. Admiral Joy made it clear that his side still insisted on a more defensible line, approximating present battle positions, but that he was willing to discuss some compromise. One day, after Joy had stated his position, Nam II sat silent for two hours and eleven minutes, chain-smoking through his curved cigaret holder, fidgeting and looking at his watch...
...week at the Kaesong conference table ended as it began, in deadlock over the problem of where to draw the ceasefire line. The U.N. stood fast for a buffer along the actual front-line positions; the Reds stuck to their demand for a buffer zone straddling the 38th parallel. Day after day, both sides presented "clarifications" of their aims. Repeating the U.N.'s view that the parallel is an insecure defense line, Admiral Joy three times asked North Korean General Nam II, chief Communist delegate: "Do you or do you not agree that the security of his forces...
...actions, probing attacks and heavy U.N. air strikes against the Reds' buildup areas and communications. In the wild mountains of Korea's east coast, 60 miles south of Wonsan, U.N. patrols moved in on Kosong (reportedly the eastern anchor of the U.N.'s proposed cease-fire buffer zone), while a destroyer-escort pounded the town from offshore. Further south and west, near Yanggu, U.N. infantrymen rested briefly after a savage, five-day fight for a 1.500-foot Red stronghold which Americans nicknamed "Fool Mountain...
...mile-deep buffer zone between the opposing forces, roughly along the present U.N.-held line, requiring the Communists to move back; ¶ An international commission with full power of inspection in North Korea; ¶No further shipments of war material or "volunteers" to Korea...
Only a First Step. But it was only a first step. There was bound to be trouble over some of the West's terms for a ceasefire. The Communists were certain, for example, to raise stiff objections to a buffer zone which would leave the U.N. forces in their positions and force the Communists to move back 15 or 20 miles. It would not be easy to talk the Communists into letting a truce team travel behind their lines. The Communists have opposed all the supervisory commissions and truce teams the U.N. has attempted, and met most with boycott...