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National Geographic : 1969 Mar
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Cold-war combatants man the front line-the Panmunjom truce table in the DMZ. A ribbon, visible between the flags of North Korea (foreground) and the United Nations, marks the precise boundary dividing North and South. At right sits the chief U.N. representative, Maj. Gen. Gilbert H. Woodward of the U. S. Army, flanked by a South Korean general (background) and a British brigadier. Across from General Woodward sits North Korea's negotiator, Maj. Gen. Pak Chung Kuk. Charts behind him allege truce violations. It was over this table, just before last Christmas, that General Woodward successfully completed negotiations for the release of the U.S.S. Pueblo's 82 surviving crewmen, who had spent 11 months in North Korean hands. Kibitzers from Red China observe each move of the unending truce talks. Serious and unsmiling, they sit be hind the North Korean negotiators. Those who died for freedom lie in the United Nations Memorial Ceme tery at Pusan; stones in the foreground mark the graves of Turkish fighters, famous for their bravery. The field, holding the remains of 2,266 men, symbolizes the war's grim toll of 175,887 U.N. battle casualties, four fifths of them South Korean. The large marker honors troops of the British Commonwealth. 334
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