Word: kaesong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most nervous I have ever been in my life. I also felt like it was a funeral rather than a usual mission ... I know I was wondering myself why on earth we were using this terrible weapon in Korea even while the peace talks were going on at Kaesong . . . When I think of my future, when I think of some day-though I am not married yet, I intend to be-when my son asks me what I did in Korea, how can I tell him that I came over here and dropped germ bombs on people, destroying them, bringing...
...explainer took the smile as a favorable sign, and continued with eloquence: "If you walk out that door [pointing to the door to North Korea], your troubles will be at an end. Your family is waiting for you in Kaesong [six miles away] and you will see them tonight." The P.W. leaned forward as though interested, and lit a cigarette...
...nights after the Korean war began, Methodist Missionaries Bertha Smith, an evangelist, Helen Rosser, a nurse, and Nellie Dyer, a teacher, were arrested in Kaesong by North Korean Communists...
Rain during the night had settled the dust of the Korean roads, and the buses and Russian-made ambulances lumbering down from Kaesong to Panmunjom stirred up no clouds. The first man on the U.N. side to spot them was a U.S. soldier in a front line observation post, outside the Panmunjom neutral area, who was watching through field glasses. Artillery whined and smacked in the nearby hills...
...since the Korean truce talks opened at Kaesong in July, 1951 had Communist negotiators said, "I agree to your proposal," so often in such a short time. After several days of rapid progress last week, Rear Admiral John C. Daniel, chief of the U.N. liaison group, came triumphantly out of the wooden, Red-built conference house at Panmunjom, announcing that the U.N.-Communist agreement on exchange of sick & wounded prisoners had been signed. Photographers persuaded the admiral to perform his exit a second time, waving the agreement in his hand...