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northern half of the DMZ. Three months before Captain Sin’s
defection, Air Force Officer Lee Wung-pyung had defected to South
Korea in a MiG-19. He revealed that North Korea had set up a “Five to
Seven Day Invasion Plan”: South Korea would be occupied within a
week after an invasion. An underground tunnel northeast of Yanggu
was part of the plan (cf. p. 320). 258
The South Korean scholar Seong-Ho Jhe records (1997) that
North Korea had installed and maintained 66 military camp sites (28
with trench mortars, 25 with anti-aircraft guns, 4 with field artillery
and 9 with anti-tank weapons), four tunnels, 29.4 kilometres of mine
zones, 283 guard and observation posts, 100 broadcasting facilities,
iron-railing fences and barracks etc. Jhe writes (2000) that South
Korea, in response, had installed 96 guard and observation posts and
ten broadcasting facilities at principal locations. Compatriot scholar
Chae-han Kim (2006) records similar figures: there were reportedly
more than 280 North Korean guard and observation posts and over 90
South Korean posts. Each post had 30 soldiers equipped with trench
mortar, anti-tank weapons, hand-grenades, automatic rifles and other
weapons prohibited in the Armistice Agreement. However, since the
concentration of military power in the DMZ was far lower than in the
258_ Hahm, The Living History of the DMZ, pp. 147-8; Jhe, “Chôngjôn hyôpchông-gwa
Nampuk kyoryu hyômnyôk: chôngjôn hyôpchông-ûi yôkhal-gwa silch’ôn kwaje
mosaek,” Hanbando kunbi t’ongje 38 (2005.12), pp. 167-8: fn. 16; Kim (ed.), The
Korean DMZ - Reverting beyond Division, 2001, pp. 304, 307; Kukpang chôngbo
ponbu, Kunsa chôngjôn wiwônhoe p’yôllam: che 2 chip, 1993, pp. 29, 212; Lee,
“Segye-esô kajang mujanghwa-toen ‘pimujang chidae,’” 1998(a), p. 15: “History
of Korea’s MDL and Reduction of Tension along the DMZ and Western Sea
through Confidence Building Measures between North and South Korea,” pp.
101-102; The Korea Times, “Thru DMZ in Central Region: NK Army Capt.
Defects,” May 8, 1983. The October 3, 1953, rules are recorded in Korean by Kim
in “Chôngjôn hyôpchông,” 2006, pp. 51-2.
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