SINGAPORE: Peking Radio announced … tonight [July 1] … that the North Korean and Chinese volunteers’ Commanders-in-Chief had sent a joint message to General Ridgway agreeing to a cease-fire conference at Kaesong on the 38th Parallel between July 10 and 15. General Ridgway’s Headquarters in Tokyo confirmed … the Communist reply had been received. A high official said he could not comment at this stage. Peking Radio said acceptance was signed by Marshal Kim and General Peng.

The Radio said that an important dispatch had been received from Korea stating that General Kim Il Sung, Commander-in-Chief of the Korean People’s Army and General Peng Teh Hual, Commander of the Chinese People’s Volunteers in Korea, had sent a joint message to General Ridgway in reply to his proposal for a cease-fire… . — News agencies

[As reported by news agencies from Tokyo,] The battered town of Kaesong lies two miles south of the 38th Parallel about 40 air miles north-west of … Seoul. … Kaesong was one of the first cities to fall when the North Koreans attacked on June 25, 1950. It is on the main road between Seoul and the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.

Published in Dawn, July 2nd, 2026