For the first time since February, the full Korean truce teams on both sides met together. Around the Panmunjom conference table duly appeared eight generals and two admirals, with 46 aides and advisers in the background. Reporters were hustled out of earshot, and censors told to strike out of their copy any hint of the nature of the negotiations.
But Washington had already leaked the subs1) the U.N. is willing to trade 70,000 diehard Communist prisoners for 12,000 U.N. prisoners, a figure which apparently does not include all of the South Koreans held by the Communists; 2) it will not...