July 27, 1953
Ten O’Clock at Panmunjom
The signing of the Korean War armistice at Panmunjom on July 27, 1953
At ten in the morning, two generals signed a document that stopped the Korean War—but only after two years of arguments over maps, prisoners, and the fate of a divided peninsula. This episode follows the armistice from the final battlefield attacks to the ten-p.m. silence, and asks what it means when a cease-fire lasts longer than the peace it was meant to precede.
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