Panmunjom

Panmunjom officially Panmunjeom , village, N South Korea. It lies south of the 38th parallel, the military demarcation line that partitions Korea. In the Korean War the truce negotiations, begun at nearby Kaesong , were moved in Oct., 1951, to Panmunjom, where the truce was signed on July 27, 1953. The UN Command Military Armistice Commission is based there.

Panmunjom a village in the demilitarized zone of central Korea that was established in the aftermath of the Korean War. It was the site of the two-year-long truce conference (1951–53) held between representatives of the U.N. forces and the opposing North Korean and Chinese armies. After the armistice was signed there on July 27, 1953, Panmunjom also hosted liaison officials and guards of Sweden, Poland, Switzerland, and Czechoslovakia, the four countries that formed the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission. In 1968, the United States and North Korea used Panmunjom as the site from which to negotiate the release of prisoners taken from a U.S. intelligence ship seized by the North Koreans. The village has since served as the location for various conferences between North and South Korea.