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...Early Arrivals. For their own men, the Reds evidently expected a rough, slow trip over the loo-mile road from Pyongyang to Kaesong. The road was muddy, and cratered from innumerable allied air attacks, and it had been bountifully strewn with "tetrahedrons"-devilish little four-pointed gadgets of cast iron which always keep one sharp point up, no matter how they fall, to puncture tires.* Obviously eager to be the first on the scene, the Communists announced that they proposed to leave Pyongyang the day before the Kaesong meeting in a convoy of five jeeps and five trucks bearing white...
...Three Colonels. The U.N. mission traveling to Kaesong in its helicopters consisted of three colonels: Andrew Kinney of the U.S. Air Force, James Murray of the U.S. Marine Corps (both from General Ridgway's joint planning group in Tokyo) and Lee Soo Yong of the South Korean army. There were two pilots and a copilot, a mechanic, two interpreters, an Eighth Army photographer. No allied newsman went to Kaesong. A large throng of U.S. and other U.N. reporters were left behind at Munsan. If the negotiators ran into foul play (which was not seriously expected), allied ground forces around...
...helicopters carried radio equipment, box lunches, and a white flag on a long pole-"in case of emergency." After circling Kaesong twice, the pilots saw a jeep on the ground moving toward a landing space marked with a large letter W. The eggbeaters settled down. Three uniformed North Koreans stepped forward, one a woman with glasses and long, straight, black hair. They had three jeeps, one Russian-made, the other two U.S. Army jeeps, one with the U.S. markings still visible. While the 'copter crews stayed with their machines, the U.N. negotiators and their aides got into the vehicles...
Colonel Kinney and his party were driven to a large, tile-roofed Korean mansion -once elegant, now shabby-on the northern outskirts. Kaesong seemed to be brimming with Communist troops; the meeting house was surrounded by armed guards. Inside, the unarmed U.N. representatives were met by an unarmed five-man Communist team...
...helicopters' return. Finally, at 4:40 in the afternoon, the 'copters came churning into view. Colonel Kinney and his teammates stepped out, poker-faced and silent. Their official communique: the preliminary conference had been successful. The actual cease-fire negotiations would get under way at Kaesong on Tuesday of this week. At this meeting, the U.N. team will be headed by Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy (see box). The Communist delegation will be composed of three North Koreans, General Nam II, General Chang Pyong San and Major General Lee Sang Cho, and two Chinese, Generals Teng...