Word: kaesong
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This week the U.N. command reported progress at Kaesong toward an agenda. Once the agenda gets written, the real struggle of the conference will begin...
...kind of talk that Americans approved and understood. Apparently, Communists understood it too. After three days of bluster, the Communists backed down. When the talking began again, Kaesong was truly a neutral city. Reported the U.N. delegates of the new truce discussions: "Some progress was made...
...first decision in the Battle of Kaesong went to the allies...
After three days during which the Reds made up their minds to yield to U.N. demands (see col. 2), the negotiators were back at their conference table. The Kaesong talks went on behind an enclosure of barbed wire and strictest secrecy, but the Communists broadcast to the world their conditions for a ceasefire: ¶The opposing armies to withdraw to a distance of ten kilometers (about 6.2 miles) north and south of the 38th parallel; ¶The 12½-mile-wide strip thus created across the peninsula to be under the civil administration of the North and South Korean governments...
...Communists, who had insisted on Kaesong, a town in Red territory, as the scene of the truce talks, took over the place, behaved as if they were the victors receiving a peace delegation from a beaten enemy. Communist propagandists spread the picture of armed Chinese and North Koreans blustering over unarmed U.S. delegates (see below). Matt Ridgway is not the kind of man to take such treatment calmly. He seized on the question of allied war correspondents' being allowed to cover the meetings (see PRESS) and used that issue to show the Reds-and the world-that...