Word: munsan
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...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...
...Second Charge. This did not satisfy the Reds. Three days later, half an hour before midnight, they telephoned the U.N. base at Munsan, claiming that an outrageous air attack had occurred, and asked that U.N. investigators be dispatched to Kaesong at once. They went...
...advance base and press camp at Munsan, though correspondents were irked by the lack of hard news, optimism ran higher than at any time since the truce talks started. Subject to change, of course, without notice...
...Kaesong, the only freedom of movement for the U.N. people was along the Munsan road, and between the meetinghouse and the U.N. headquarters house, two blocks away. This headquarters, which stood between low hills on the outskirts of Kaesong, had been assigned and furnished by the Communists; the U.N. staff refurnished it with articles trucked up from Munsan. Outside the headquarters house was a stone tablet bearing the words Yung-ting Tai-meaning Everlasting Stability Terrace...
...jeeps and trucks turned around, one by one in the narrow road, and rolled back to Munsan. Admiral Joy and his four team members, who had been waiting at Munsan, did not take off in their 'copters that...