Word: truce
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...months since the line was first drawn, but nowhere has the line of contact moved more than half a mile. Renegotiating the line appeared to be a simple task. But U.S. officers in Korea were already looking forebodingly to the appalling problems of supervising and enforcing the truce arrangements...
...left himself room to maneuver, and maneuver he did. His subordinates did the most extreme talking. All week long, generals, cabinet ministers and assemblymen heaped abuse on the U.S. and the pending armistice agreement, talked of resisting the neutral truce commission, hinted that they would .have to guard Americans against public outbursts, threatened to fight on alone. They spoke with the eloquence of despair. Said Major General Choi Duk Shin, ROK delegate who has been boycotting the Panmunjom talks: "The foreigners, you, who came in here, are going to destroy us ... The people will say: perhaps we would have been...
Communist forces have grabbed more than a dozen outposts from the U.N. since truce talks resumed in earnest five weeks ago. When U.S. troops were attacked they defended their positions well, but eventually withdrew, and launched few counterattacks. One U.S. commander explained why. Said he: "How would I ever explain it if I lost 50 men trying to take back an outpost the day the armistice was signed...
...fighting were to continue, the Eighth Army's Main Line of Resistance would be menaced by the new Red gains. But under an armistice, the U.N. will have lost little in the last weeks' battles, since the Eighth Army's projected truce line- based on the best defensive lines in all sectors-is well behind present positions anyway...
According to the truce terms, both sides are to pull back two kilometers (about 1¼ miles) within 72 hours of an armistice. Defenses have been in preparation for more than a year by units when in reserve. At headquarters, a top Eighth Army officer explained: "We'll just pick up our stoves and take the glass windows out of the bunkers on the front and move them back a ways. All the new line needs then is a bunch of G.I.s keeping house in it." Despite these paper plans at headquarters, regimental commanders at the front were still...