Word: kaesong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles moved on from there to settle the intolerable situation in Korea, in which the Kaesong-Panmunjom truce talks had dragged on for 18 months while U.S. and U.N. forces suffered thousands of casualties a week. He informed Red China, through India's neutralist Prime Minister Nehru, that it would have to conclude the Panmunjom talks or risk an all-out U.S. drive to win the war. Red China signed. Dulles was improvising, experimenting, learning as he went along. His next move: Indo-China. First, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Radford recommended U.S. naval air strikes...
...Kaesong and Panmunjom that is just what happened. It fell to Admiral C. Turner Joy, U.S.N. , as chief of the United Nations Command Delegation to the Korean Armistice Conference, to navigate this viscid ocean of incomprehension...
...this chronicle, few facts are recorded to U.S. advantage. One was an accident, another deep in the nature of man and Communism. When the U.N. delegates first went to the Kaesong teahouse where the armistice negotiations took place, they casually took the north side of the table (unaware of the Oriental convention that the victor faces south), and so dismayed the face-conscious enemy that "the Communist liaison officer actually stuttered." Thereafter the U.N. faced north. Another fact was the simple proposition that almost half of the Red prisoners did not want to go home. Eighteen months were consumed...
...levy food, drink and banquet quotas on South Korean shopkeepers, for the use of the students and unemployed whom Rhee can always rely on to do his rioting for him. Then President Rhee put out two ultimatums. The first was to the North Koreans: get out of the Kaesong enclave, the area south of the 38th Parallel on Korea's west coast which was ceded to the Communists...
...days later, the converts shared top billing at Kaesong's variety theater...