Editorial Note
At 10:12 a.m. Korean time on July 27, Generals Harrison and Nam Il finished signing the armistice documents at a building especially constructed at Panmunjom for the ceremony. They did not exchange words. Later that afternoon at Munsan-ni, General Clark, with his top military advisers and a representative of the Republic of Korea Army in attendance, countersigned the document. For 12 hours after the signature [Page 1444] at Panmunjom, artillery and mortar fire continued at the front, United Nations Command planes attacked North Korean targets, and the United States Navy continued its offshore shelling of the North Korean coast. Then, at 10 p.m. the fighting stopped and the armistice began. For accounts of the signing ceremonies and other events on that last day, see Hermes, Truce Tent and Fighting Front, pages 489–491, and Clark, From the Danube to the Yalu, pages 295–296. Because of the time difference between Korea and Washington, President Eisenhower delivered a television and radio address to the nation at 10 p.m. on July 26, announcing the signature of the armistice. For a text of that statement and a similar one by Secretary Dulles, see Department of State Bulletin, August 3, 1953, pages 131–132. Also included in that Department of State Bulletin is a text of the Armistice Agreement and the Supplementary Agreement on Prisoners of War, pages 132–140.