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...family were getting ready to go home. Nam-chang's husband was one of at least a million South Korean civilian casualties in the early days of the war, but she has a hunch that her old father is still living on his two-acre farm near Munsan. Nam-chang has three children. As if that were not enough, she has adopted a little girl-one of Korea's 100,000 war orphans-who would most likely have died if Mrs. Ahn had not taken her in. The U.N. Civil Assistance Command has been looking after the Ahns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: The Walnut | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...Munsan, the U.N. truce base where old notices now curl and yellow on the bulletin boards, some 200 marooned U.S. officers and men have found various ways to alleviate boredom since the Panmunjom talks were broken off last October. The latest (in addition to cards, pingpong, movies, basketball, pheasant hunting in the nearby hills and sleeping): assembling toy trains from kits sent from Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Antidote for Boredom | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...MUNSAN, Korea, Monday, Sept, 28-- The Allies offered three new proposals Sunday for breaking the long Korean armistice deadlock by giving the Communists face-saying outs on prisoner exchange. The first Red reaction was a scornful "nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stevenson Bares Income Record; U.N. Offers New Peace Proposal | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...MUNSAN, Korea, April 16--The Allies scolded the Reds again today for trying to use the "phony issue" of Russian neutrality as a bargaining point in the dead-locked Korean armistice talks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eisenhower Leads Taft on Early Returns in New Jersey Primary; Kefauver, Unopposed, Shows Well | 4/16/1952 | See Source »

Fussy Rigmarole. Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy, the chief U.N. delegate, flew to Tokyo last week, conferred lengthily with Matt Ridgway and returned to Munsan with what correspondents believed to be the latest Washington compromise proposal in his briefcase. The newsmen thought that the U.N. would ask the Communists for a general pledge not to build up their "military capability" during an armistice. If the enemy broke the pledge and then breached the peace as well, the U.N. would have what the Pentagon re gards as moral justification for punitive action against Red China itself (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEASE-FIRE: Signing the Pledge | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

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