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UNC/MAC claimed that denuclearization as a political issue was
irrelevant to the MAC.
At the 451st meeting proposed by the KPA/CPV held on
September 12, the North criticized that the US had brought brand-new
F-16 fighter planes and military equipment into South Korea and
through military exercises such as Team Spirit and 89 Ûlchi Focus
conducted training for a nuclear war between August 21 and September
1. The South’s rearmament policy was an outrageous violation of the
Armistice Agreement’s preamble and Paragraph 13(d). If nuclear
weapons were withdrawn, the risk of war would be removed and
tension reduced. The South pointed out the North’s recent rearmaments
and claimed that nuclear weapons were not an issue to raise in the
MAC. Rearmaments and military equipment were also raised at the
final meetings held in the 1980s. 265 Clearly, the previous “zero-sum
game” continued unabated with the same or similar arguments repeated
by both parties.
5.3 Armistice Violations
At a time of widespread dissent caused by President Park Chung
Hee’s suppression of his opposition and when the North was eager to
convey the impression that a Marxist revolution in South Korea was
under way, there were between July 1979 and August 1983 seven
infiltrations of North Korean vessels carrying commandos and four of
265_ Hapch’am chôngbo ponbu, ibid., 1999, pp. 416, 418, 423-24, 425; Kukpang
chôngbo ponbu, ibid., 1993, pp. 227, 228, 229-230; The Korea Times, “MAC
Meeting Held in Secrecy,” January 18, 1989; Werner, Månadsrapport januari 1989,
p. 3. Original quotation marks.
338 Peace-keeping in the Korean Peninsula