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...officials agreed to hold preliminary cease-fire meetings in Kaesong, even though this town...
...first the Reds had been uncompromising. They insisted on neutral zones around Panmunjom, around the Communist and U.N. advance bases at Kaesong and Munsan, and around the connecting roads, totaling some 175 square miles, as against the allied proposal of less than 20. They insisted that the U.N. command accept responsibility for guerrilla disturbances in the neutral zones, and that nights over them by U.N. planes be absolutely banned...
...actions of "partisans" or "irregulars" not under military control. Next, in a workmanlike series of compromises, it was agreed that the conference site at Panmunjom should be protected by a neutral zone 1,000 yards (about five-eighths of a mile) in radius, that three-mile radius circles around Kaesong and Munsan and a 400-meter (438-yard) corridor along the access roads should be free from hostile attack. Finally, the Reds accepted the U.N. assurance that flights over the protected zones would be limited "insofar as practicable." The U.N. is putting up orange, cerise and yellow balloons over...
...cease-fire talks, the Communists put up a large tent. Under it, Communist and U.N. liaison officers met last week to haggle-not over peace, but over how wide the neutral zone must be in which to discuss the peace. At this point, two U.N. planes, strafing the Kaesong neutral area by mistake, killed a twelve-year-old Korean boy and wounded his two-year-old brother. After an investigation, General Matt Ridgway accepted responsibility for the occurrence, expressed his "heartfelt grief" and promised "prompt and appropriate disciplinary action...
While peace talks were but a sporadic, long-distance mumble, the guns spoke sharply again. Allied artillery began pounding the enemy lines along a 40-mile front west of Kumhwa, through Chorwon, Yonchon, Korangpo, to within a few miles of Kaesong. At the same time, allied naval units bombarded east and west coasts of North Korea, and carrier-based aircraft and bombers from bases in Japan and Okinawa began tearing up enemy supply lines. Next day allied troops attacked all along the line. By nightfall 100,000 men of nine allied nations were in combat...