1.
GV EXT. CONFERENCE BUILDING (SILENT)
0.04

2.
SV INT. PAN. FROM CICCOLELLA TO PAK AND COLLEAGUES (SILENT)
0.10

3.
MV EXT. PEOPLE LOOKING THROUGH WINDOWS (SILENT)
0.14

4.
SCU CICCOLELLA SOF BEGINS:



"I KNOW WHAT IS IN THIS DOCUMENT.......



ZOOM TO GV - CU PAK LISTENING - PAN TO CICCOLELLA.



SOF ENDS: "......PERMITTED IN THIS CONFERENCE ROOM"
1.26


'FREEDOM HOUSE'; JOINT SECURITY AREA; MAJOR-GENERAL PAK AND MAJOR-GENERAL RICHARD G. CICCOLELLA SPEAKING'.



TRANSCRIPT OF SEQUENCE 4: CICCOLELLA: "I KNOW WHAT'S IN THIS DOCUMENTS. I KNOW THAT ONE OF YOUR GANG SIGNED IT. AND IT WAS ALSO COUNTERSIGNED BY GENERAL SUM(?) WE KNOW THAT FOR FOURTEEN YEARS YOU AND YOUR GANG OF RUFFIANS HAVE VIOLATED EVERY CONDITION AND TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. AND DO THESE SIMPLE THINGS I'VE JUST OUTLINED THEN THE ARMISTICE WILL BE MAINTAINED AND THE TENSIONS ALONG THE DEMILITARISED ZONE WILL EVAPORATE. AND NEXT YOU WROTE A PACK OF LIES CONCERNING THE DISCORDS AND DISRUPTION THAT OCCURRED AT THE 244TH. MEETING OF THE ARMISTICE COMMISSION. IT IS NOTHING SHORT OF INCREDIBLE THAT YOU CAN COME TO THIS MEETING TODAY AFTER THE WHOLE WORLD HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO WITNESS YOUR DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT, WHEN YOU BOLD-FACEDLY ACCUSED MY SIDE OF PRECISELY WHAT YOU AND YOUR THUGS ARE GUILTY OF. THIS IS THE LAST TIME ANY OF YOUR GANG WILL BE PERMITTED IN THIS CONFERENCE ROOM."




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Background: NORTH KOREA AT TUESDAY (18 APRIL) THREATENED TO RESORT TO FORCE STOP THE UNITED NATIONS COMMAND USING MEETINGS OF THE MILITARY ARMISTICE COMMISSION IN THE TRUCE VILLAGE OF PANMUNJOM FOR "VICIOUS POLITICAL PROPAGANDA". AT TUESDAY'S MEETING (18TH APRIL) BOTH SIDES HELD EACH OTHER RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DISORDER AT LAST FRIDAY'S MEETING, WHICH ENDED WITH AN ANGRY NORTH KOREAN WALK-OUT.

THE CHIEF NORTH KOREAN DELEGATES, MAJOR-GENERAL PAK CHUNG KUK, TOLD TUESDAY'S MEETING THAT THE UNITED NATIONS COMMAND WAS TRYING TO DISRUPT THE 14-YEAR-OLD ARMISTICE AGREEMENT BY MAKING POLITICAL PROPAGANDA. THE ALLEGATIONS CAME AFTER THE NORTH KOREAN DELEGATION HAD WALKED OUT OF A MEETING ON FRIDAY OF LAST WEEK WHEN THE UNITED NATIONS COMMAND SHOWED A COLOUR FILM OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S VISIT TO KOREA LAST NOVEMBER.

GENERAL CICCOLELLA SAID THAT HE HAD SHOWN THE FILM TO REBUT A NORTH KOREAN CLAIM THAT THE SOUTH KOREAN PEOPLE WERE SUFFERING FORM "U.S. IMPERIALISM".

HE SAID THE CONFERENCE WAS BROKEN UP BY "HOODLUM TACTICS". HE SAID ONE OF GENERAL PAK'S JUNIOR OFFICERS, "ACTING LIKE A WILD ANIMAL" HAD PICKED AN ASH TRAY AND THREATENED TO THROW IT .

FRIDAY'S MEETING FOLLOWED A SERIES OF BORDER CLASHES IN WHICH AT LEAST SEVEN NORTH KOREANS AND ONE SOUTH KOREAN ARE REPORTER TO HAVE BEEN KILLED.