Military Armistice Commission, Panmunjom, Korea
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF NEWS SERVICES LR 3164 THE PENTAGON, WASHINGTON 25, D.C. - LIBERTY 5-6700 AUDIO-VISUAL DIVISION - RADI0-TV-NEWSFILM BRANCH ROOM 2E791 - EXTENSION 75111 (A) Release No. 143.63 DUPE NEGATIVE TO: Footage: 185° FINE GRAIN TO; 23 June 1963 MILITARY ARMISTICE COMMISSION PARMONSOM PANMUNIOM (Official Arry footage released by Department of Defense) The signing of the Military Arristice Agreement on July 27, 1963, halted the shooting Liss Xorce last a tresty was never signed. Tea years laber the truse remins in effect. After three years of bitter fighting in Korea, two million persons dead and a nation Was divided. Today the gup has deepened 80 that North and South Koree are isolated from each other associated in nane callo The country is cut by the Demilitarized Zone which winds 151 miles between the 38th and 39th parallel. The Military Armistice Commission which has supervised the of the peace is corposed of ten members, five appointed by the United Nations Comment and five from the North Korean and Commist Chinese Arsailes. Presently, Ms.jor General George H. Cloud of the United States Military Commed 18 serving as the Senior neuber for the United Nations Command. The Commission which may be called into session by either side hns not 172 times in the last decade to discuss violations of the 1953 Agreement. Violations from personnel crossing the Demilitarized Zone to alleged reval and air exercisements. The conference building is situated so that the Military Destrecention line bisecting the whole some plases down the center of the green felt; covered conference table. Thus the commist side of the seeking tavle is in North Korea and the United Entions side is In South Korea. These officers moot daily concept Sundays and bolidays to exchange reports and to pass communications from the Seistor members of their sides. Sequences show: (a) Vehicles driving from South Korea by crossing the long, answere Freedom date Bridge. (b) On the other side is the village of headquarters of the Military Armistice Commission. (c) Major deneral George 3. Cloud and 11.3 staff enter the MB. building the United Nations Commission take Wheir places on the side NOTE TO EDITORS: PLEASE CREDIT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN TITLE OR COMMENTARY of company and distribution pool members. It then to be returned within take 72 hours to the alderiat 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York, be cut in any manner. A dupe negative is also for release to the company designated above for distribution to pool members so desiring for duplication purposes. Within 24 hours it will be delivered to DeLuxe Laboratories, 850 Tenth Avenue, New York, N. Y., telephone Circle 7-3220 where it will be avail- able to non-pool members and other authorized organizations which make satisfactory financial arrangements with DeLuxe Laboratories. The dupe negative must not be cut in any manner. type Kfh
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