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Before the UNC/MAC at the 289th meeting presented its plan to
reduce tension within the DMZ, it pointed out that [non-exemplified]
modest and well-adjusted defensive measures had been undertaken.
but now the North as the aggressive party had to take the first step to
reduce tension. The four-point plan aimed to a) immediately prevent
attacks against the UNC and infiltration attempts into South Korea,
b) remove all prohibited weapons, equipment and personnel from the
DMZ, c) reduce North Korea’s armed forces that had been augmented
in violation of Paragraph 13(d) prohibiting rearmaments and d) cease
public polemical and war-mongering talks. If the North responded
positively, the South would do so too, but the North made no response
nor any comment.
A North Korean infiltration attempt by sea took place on March
15-16, 1969, when seven North Korean agents landed at the small
port of Chumunjin on the east coast in darkness. Four of them wore
South Korean uniforms and seized in an alleged police raid on a
restaurant four civilian identification cards. Then they went to the
police station and killed the head of the police. Two other policemen
were captured and brought to their rubber dinghy, but one escaped
and informed the Home Land Reserve Force, which sank the boat just
outside the harbour. The whole crew drowned. The mother ship was
reportedly not hit but owing to its surprise over the shooting it could
ponbu, op. cit., 1993, pp. 154, 155, 402; Lee, op. cit., 1998(b), pp. 2, 3: ibid.,
2001 (a), p. 143; ibid., 2004, pp. 80-81; NNSC Chief Delegates - List Updated April
14, 1997; Sergel, Månadsrapport för mars 1969 (Panmunjom, March 31, 1969),
pp. 1, 2, 5, 15: Månadsrapport för april 1969 (Panmunjom, April 30, 1969), p. 8.
The shortest MAC meeting was the 62nd called by the KPA/CPV held on July 16,
1955, which only lasted seven minutes. From Kukpang chôngbo ponbu, ibid.,
1993, p. 47.
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