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...Panmunjom, North Korea's dapper, tireless Lieut. General Nam II returned to the truce table with a "grave warning." The Communist armies, he cried, "decidedly cannot sit by while seeing their capTured fellow combatants being slaughtered by your side at will" (see below). This sounded uncomfortably like the warnings that emanated from Red China on the eve of her massive intervention in the autumn...
...Nam voicing another such threat -or was it just a bluff? General Van Fleet in Seoul saw no signs-yet-that a Communist offensive is imminent...
...Chinese prisoners who would not "forcibly resist" repatriation. By scraping around among dissident South Koreans, it raised the number of those willing to go north to 70,000. When this number was passed on to the U.N. truce negotiators, they were stunned. They had already (and unwisely) given Nam Il & Co. a much higher estimate; they knew the Reds would not accept the 70,000 figure. The U.N. negotiators reportedly asked Matt Ridgway for a rescreening. Ridgway referred the request to Van Fleet. Van Fleet, however, stoutly insisted that the prison stockades were under control, and resented any suggestion that...
Senior Delegate Harrison took up right where Joy left off. "Our stand is unshakable," he said to the abusive Nam Il. "We will make no further concessions." Then Harrison suggested a three-day recess. This time the Reds accepted: barring a Communist change of mind, there was nothing to talk about anyway...
Again & again, Joy suggested an indefinite suspension of the truce talks, for if the Communists would not accept the final U.N. offer, there was no more to say. Nam blandly insisted on meeting every day. The Communists, he said, wanted to put the "truth" before the world. Nam, in effect, dared the U.N. itself to break off the talks, and counted on the U.N.'s obvious reluctance...