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[–] BlancoCanyon [S] ago  (edited ago)

Because of what General Clark called unreasonable restrictions demanded by the Communists, the top military leaders of the opposing armies did not appear at the session. The enemy, it was revealed, had demanded that if Marshal Kim Il Sung, North Korean Premier and Commander in Chief, and Gen. Peng Teh-huai, commander of the Chinese Communist troops in Korea, came to Panmunjom, all correspondents and all representatives of South Korea would be barred from the neutral zone. General Clark refused.


Outside the thin wooden walls there was the mutter of artillery fire--a grim reminder that even as the truce was being signed men were still dying on near-by hills and the fight would continue for twelve more hours.