Word: truce
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where is the "ice-cream parlor" of Asia? See THE WORLD, The Troubled Truce...
Actually, the Korean War-or "conflict," because no one ever officially declared war-has never legally ended. The armistice that the combatants signed 15 years ago led to one of the longest truces in the modern history of warfare. Since its signing, the Military Armistice Commission, composed of U.N. observers and U.S. and North Korean officials, has met 273 times at Panmunjom, right in the middle of the Demilitarized Zone set up by the truce. The meetings have always been bitter and hostile, but lately they have taken on an even harsher tone as the result of North Korea...
Improper Bands. Since Lyndon Johnson's visit to South Korea in late 1966, more "serious incidents" have occurred than in all the previous 13 years of truce. So far this year, there have been more than 200 such episodes, in which six G.I.s, 36 South Korean soldiers and 55 North Korean infiltrators have been killed. North Korean Premier Kim II Sung recently declared a "month of struggle" against the South to mark the truce anniversary. Only last week, seven North Korean infiltrators were killed by U.S. and South Korean troops in two separate clashes along the 151-mile Demilitarized...
Everyone keeps track of the statistics, grim or absurd. Since the Military Armistice Commission began meeting, North Korea has charged the U.N. command with no fewer than 56,889 truce violations, most of them such minor procedural matters as the presence of improper arm bands on U.N. guards. The U.N. has admitted 93 violations and charged North Korea with 6,313. Pyongyang has admitted only two, the last one in 1953. It is so adamant about not taking blame for the increased tensions along the DMZ that it refuses to accept the bodies of slain North Korean soldiers, insisting that...
Inside the truce hut, the game continues across the green felt table that is located precisely athwart the cease-fire line. A battle of flagpoles once went on for weeks as each side tried to have its flag stand higher in the meeting room. They finally agreed that only miniature flagpoles, both of precisely equal size, would be placed on the table, but North Korea has put a spike point atop its tiny table pole to gain a minute one-inch height advantage. Language across the table, which is predictably tough, reached a peak last year when the senior member...