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...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...
When the peace talks began in Kaesong nearly two years ago, Rhee denounced them as another Communist trick, and added, blusteringly, that if the U.N. were to sign a truce, the South Korean army would advance to the Yalu itself. Rhee's truculence is echoed by many Koreans, and for understandable reasons: without the power resources, the fertilizer factories and the iron mines of North Korea, the republic is doomed to economic mendicancy. When President Eisenhower visited Korea last December, Syngman Rhee insisted that the condition of any settlement must be unification of Korea...
...Like the troubles of our times, we crop up everywhere. A member of our class was one of the team of three who first made contact with the Communists at Kaesong . . .; another was among the last American officials to be ousted from the U.S. consulate in Peking . . . Another is a big corporation executive in the newest country in the world, Israel...
When Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy and his team reached Kaesong for the first session, they found the city taken over by armed Communists. By propaganda and picture, the Reds represented themselves as victors. Ridgway squelched that with an ultimatum; neutralize Kaesong or no more truce talks. The Reds succumbed. After some further jockeying for face, which Ridgway won hands down, the delegates got on to formulate an agenda...
...year politics; they keep ever in mind (as they certainly should) the possibility of war in Europe or over Detroit-but are apt to dismiss as "localitis" any forthright attempt to settle the war in Korea. Any shavetail out of West Point could have put his finger on the Kaesong-Panmunjom fallacy by quoting Clausewitz: "If our opponent is to do our will, we must put him in a position more disadvantageous to him than the sacrifice...we demand." In Korea, the U.N. had the Communists at a disadvantage but let them get away...