Word: truce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Division is no longer assigned to guard an extended sector of the 150-mile-long DMZ, as it was until 1971 Still, its location near the oft-used mountain passes at the western edge of the truce line means that its units would be engulfed by the fighting almost immediately if North Korea ever invaded in strength. Moreover, the 2nd Division is counted on to provide a strategic reserve for I Corps Group-a 175,000-man force that includes twelve ROK (Republic of Korea) divisions as well...
After 22 years of "temporary" truce, the Demilitarized Zone that partitions Korea has become, among other things, a bird sanctuary. The gigantic white-plumed Manchurian crane, an exotic type of which only 30 specimens are known to exist, now winters in the barbed-wire-lined...
Every day at noon, U.S. and North Korean officers meet at the border to exchange information about the state of the truce. The Americans invariably stand at least 6 ft. tall, and the smaller Koreans just as invariably make sure that their own chairs are slightly raised so that they cannot be looked down upon. (The Koreans' language is no less belligerent. Recent sample: "You are matchlessly brazen-faced.") It was in such a setting that U.S. Major General William Webb last week indignantly presented photos of a tunnel that North Korean infiltrators had secretly dug under...
...Seoul. The fact is that Kim has never accepted the existence of an independent, non-Communist South. In the past couple of years, he has not only launched repeated terrorist attacks across the border, but has also built a series of airstrips and naval ports close to the truce line. Recently he shifted two fully armored divisions to positions close to the DMZ. "There has been a change up North," notes Professor Kim Chum Kon, director of the Institute of Security and International Affairs in Seoul. A well-known critic of the Park government, Kim warns that the North...
...years go by, the truce between the two groups of public officials we used to call hawks and doves will probably prove to be infinitely more durable than the "peace with honor" that Richard Nixon achieved in Paris shortly after the 1972 Christmas bombings of Hanoi. A conspiracy of silence will rob the United States of its Vietnam heritage: the moral, legal and political questions that American involvement raised but never quite settled...