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...days later, the Reds rejected Ridgway's request that talks be moved from Kaesong to Songhyon, eight miles closer to U.N. lines. Then they made a counterproposal: Why not meet in Panmunjom, a village just a mile away from Songhyon? Ridgway promptly agreed that Panmunjom met "the fundamental condition of equality of movement and control." Once again it was left to juniors to work out the details. But in Seoul and Tokyo, U.N. commanders continued in their optimistic belief that the Reds genuinely want a ceasefire...
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...
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