He says Pyongyang halted contact between the Red Cross delegations in the truce village,Panmunjom, and the North Korean Navy contacted the South to inform it that all marine communications between the two Korea's are now cut.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

In 1953, Operation "Big Switch" was under way as prisoners taken during the Korean conflict were exchanged at Panmunjom.

CNN: Monday,

In 1976, two American soldiers were killed by North Korean soldiers in a skirmish in the Joint Security Area in Panmunjom.

CNN: Monday,

It would not, however, discuss a request by the South that it should allow millions of separated families to exchange letters and set up a meeting-place in Panmunjom.

ECONOMIST: The Koreas