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...commanders were also worried by the condition of the more than 3,000 U.S. prisoners in Red stockades scattered from Pyongyang to the Yalu. By radio, Matt Ridgway dispatched a personal appeal to North Korea's Kim II Sung and Red China's Peng Teh-huai that they start permitting Red Cross inspection at once, as the U.N. has been doing all along. The U.N. subcommittee men at Panmunjom asked that sick and wounded prisoners be exchanged at once...
General Ridgway, over the juniors' heads, appealed directly to Kim II Sung and Peng Teh-huai for a change of site to Songhyon, a mud-hut village eight miles southeast of Kaesong. Songhyon, said Ridgway, would have the advantage of being "approximately midway between the battle lines" and "it would, of course, be agreed by both sides that this meeting place would be kept free of armed troops and that both sides would abstain from any hostile acts...
...Korea as an instrument of blackmail at San Francisco. General Ridgway seized an obvious last chance to get the truce talks on the track again and formally suggested to the Reds that the conference site be moved to another location. In a message to Kim II Sung and Peng Teh-huai, Ridgway proposed that choice of a new site be discussed by liaison officers, and added: "Further use of . . . Kaesong will inevitably result in additional interruptions . . . and further delays...
...amateurishly staged presentation . . ." The Communists, in turn, denounced Ridgway's reply as "savage" and "contemptible," charged further attempts to murder Communist personnel by U.S. and South Korean "plainclothesmen," and accused U.N. air commanders of sending planes over Shanghai and Tsingtao. In one message from Kim II Sung and Peng Teh-huai to Ridgway, they gave away what really seemed to be worrying them: "You have the audacity to regard yourselves as the victors...
...Ridgway in Tokyo. If the Reds had any doubts left about U.S. firmness at Kaesong, Ridgway cleared them up fast. He called off next day's conference, sent a coldly stern message to the Red commanders, North Korea's Kim II Sung and Red China's Peng Teh-huai: ". . . I now invite your attention to this flagrant violation of the assurances which I required and which you promised. [Until] a satisfactory explanation of this violation and assurance of a nonrecurrence are received . . . the United Nations Command delegation will remain within the United Nations line. I await your...