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Panmunjeom South Korea: see Panmunjom .
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Combat on `the chop': as truce talks at Panmunjom dragged on "with all the speed of a stiff concrete mix" in April 1953, two 7th Infantry Division regiments waged a vicious struggle to hold, and then retake, a 255-yard hill in west-central Korea. After 45 hours and brutal losses, GIs finally declared victory. (Korean War).(battle of Pork Chop Hill, Korean War )
Magazine article from: VFW Magazine; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...hills near the 38th Parallel. Strategy was aimed at grabbing land to bolster negotiating positions during armistice talks at Panmunjom. Winning the war--for either side--was no longer an option. As talks wore on, Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) eyed Hill 255...
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A Korean War veteran's story: ferrying POWs to Panmunjom.(COMMENTARY)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 11/11/2008; 368 words
; ...receive more prisoners. This entire mission took some nine weeks and many trips back and forth between Koje-do Island and Panmunjom. I always tried to conduct myself first as a human being, then as a soldier toward the prisoners. During my time as a guard...
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Onslaught on the Berlin Outposts: even as the Korean War was winding down, the Chinese kept up the pressure--by attacking Outposts Berlin and East Berlin in July 1953. But Marines tenaciously resisted to the war's bitter end. (Korean War).
Magazine article from: VFW Magazine; 6/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; As summer was fast approaching the Korean Peninsula, all eyes were turned to the peace talks being held in Panmunjom. There was talk of a long-awaited armistice after three years of bloody and savage war between the North Korean and Chinese and...
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Siege of Outpost Harry: in a series of nightly attacks over eight days in June 1953, the Chinese tried and failed to wrest this strategic spot from GIs.(Korean War)
Magazine article from: VFW Magazine; 5/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...knew an attack on Outpost Harry was coming. As U.N. and Communist negotiators haggled during the first week of June 1953 in Panmunjom, U.S. troops fortified defenses around the outpost--a hill that sat some 425 yards in front of the U.S. Main Line of Resistance...
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Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War.
Magazine article from: The National Interest; 12/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...enter North Korea on a nuclear peace mission. For a brief moment, as Mr. Carter stood talking to North Korean officials at Panmunjom, one could see between the two groups a concrete marker, cemented to the ground and perhaps one inch high, extending across...
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"Soviet Aims in Korea and the Origins of the Korean War: New Evidence from Russian Archives," Cold War International History Project Working Paper No. 8.
Magazine article from: The National Interest; 12/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...enter North Korea on a nuclear peace mission. For a brief moment, as Mr. Carter stood talking to North Korean officials at Panmunjom, one could see between the two groups a concrete marker, cemented to the ground and perhaps one inch high, extending across...
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The 1951 Korean Armistice Conference: A Personal Memoir.
Magazine article from: The National Interest; 12/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...enter North Korea on a nuclear peace mission. For a brief moment, as Mr. Carter stood talking to North Korean officials at Panmunjom, one could see between the two groups a concrete marker, cemented to the ground and perhaps one inch high, extending across...
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The Korean War: An International History.
Magazine article from: The National Interest; 12/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...enter North Korea on a nuclear peace mission. For a brief moment, as Mr. Carter stood talking to North Korean officials at Panmunjom, one could see between the two groups a concrete marker, cemented to the ground and perhaps one inch high, extending across...
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Proclamation 6812 - National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day. (Pres. Bill Clinton)(Transcript)
Newspaper article from: Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents; 7/31/1995; 392 words
; ...years of fierce struggle, costing over 600,000 lives among U.S. and allied combatants, ended with a negotiated cease-fire at Panmunjom. At that moment, in the midst of the Cold War, facing the burden of containing a hostile communist world, America could not...
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Seoul: the 38th parallel. (economic cooperation with South Korea)
Magazine article from: National Review; 11/30/1984; 133 words
; ...authorities here accepting a suggestion to this effect and proposing the two sides send delegations to meet at the truce point of Panmunjom in November. This would be the first official contact between the two Koreas in four years. The North Koreans say that such...
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Panmunjom
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Panmunjom a village in the demilitarized zone of central Korea...After the armistice was signed there on July 27, 1953, Panmunjom also hosted liaison officials and guards of Sweden, Poland...Commission. In 1968, the United States and North Korea used Panmunjom as the site from which to negotiate the release ...
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Kaesong
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...North Korean forces several times during the Korean War. The armistice talks, first held at Kaesong, were later transferred to Panmunjom (Panmunjeom). Historic landmarks include the tombs of several Korean kings, the old city walls, and the remains of a royal...
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Pueblo Incident
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...infringing on North Korean sovereignty and promised not to do so again. American diplomats met with Communist officials ashore at Panmunjom, in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. Finally, President Lyndon B. Johnson directed his representatives...
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Korean War
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...General M. B. Ridgway (who had succeeded MacArthur in April of that year), proved difficult, and it was not until 27 July 1953 that an armistice was signed at Panmunjom and the battle line was accepted as the boundary between North and South Korea.
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Korea, U.S. Military Involvement in
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...North Korea and ultimately also “volunteers” from the People's Republic of China, ended in a truce signed in Panmunjom by military representatives from the United States and North Korea but not South Korea. Rhee's resistance was softened, however...
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