December 20, 1950: At the urging of the Overseas Press Club, the U.S. Army imposes full military censorship on all news dispatches from Korea. The new censorship rules replaced "voluntary" self-censorship guidelines that had existed since the early days of the war, but were often inconsistently applied. By spring of 1951 the front stabilized in the mountains north of the 38th Parallel. Reporting from Korea would become mostly routine until the armistice ending hostilities is signed on July 27, 1953.