An original press photograph from the archives of the venerable 150 year-old Star Tribune newspaper in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Type & Size: A 6.5x8.5" original photograph.
Condition: Photo from a working archive. May contain notes, marks, labels, clippings, and/or retouching by the staff at the time of publication. May contain issues associated with time, age, and use. Please see images for scans.

Lieutenant Colonel Nam Il, head of the Communist delegation, is captured stepping into a Russian-made jeep following a conference at Kaesong during the Korean War armistice talks in 1951. The image shows him accompanied by other delegation members dressed in military attire.

After the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, armistice negotiations sought to establish a ceasefire and ultimately a peace agreement. Kaesong was a significant location for these early negotiations between the North Korean and Chinese Communist forces and the United Nations Command, primarily led by the United States.

Text present on photo:
Front: No visible text.
Back:
ENGRAVING
1951 AUG 3 PM 9:30

Red stamp (sideways):
JUL 30 1951

Red handwritten text:
2
REVERSE POSITION
18 EMS

Red signature (unreadable, possibly initials):
Sun [unreadable]

Purple text/stamp (upside down):
TRIBUNE
4th Edition
AUG 6 1951

Newspaper clipping (rotated):
... right Lt. Col. NAM II head of the Communist delegation, stepped into a Russian-made jeep after leaving the Kaesong conference house.


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The press photo archives contained a mix of silver gelatin and wire photographs from sources such as Associated Press Wirephoto. Generally B&W images with no typed text on them in this archive are silver gelatin images, and photos with typed text are wire photos. All images are vintage and original to their era.