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flag rank.” The other two “... members on each side may be major
generals, brigadier generals, colonels, or their equivalents.” As a Commission
comprised of hostile parties, the MAC does not have a chairman.
The UNC established its headquarter in Tokyo on July 24, 1950,
but it was moved to Seoul on July 1, 1957, to be able to implement its
tasks more efficiently. 14
Between December 1953 and 1964, the UNC/MAC consisted of
two American generals and one each from South Korea, the United
Kingdom and Thailand. As a non-signatory of the Armistice Agreement,
South Korea did not immediately participate in the MAC.
However, since the US government and the UNC requested South
Korea to take part in the MAC at a time when it handled such post-war
issues as dealing with displaced people and excavating corpses, a
South Korean representative was dispatched on December 20, 1953.
An army general took part in the Commission on March 3, 1954,
replacing one of the original three American generals.
In order to reduce the American dominance and to respond to
North Korean criticism of the US in the MAC, since June 1964 the
UNC/MAC has had one American major general as Senior Member,
one major general and one brigadier general each from South Korea,
one British brigadier and one colonel from the UNC Liaison Group
consisting of the Philippines and Thailand. The KPA/CPV originally
had three North Korean and two Chinese officers, but since late 1954
there have been four North Korean officers and one Chinese officer. In
1985, the KPA/CPV consisted of one KPA major general as Senior
14_ Columbia University, ibid., Paragraph 19, 20, 23(a), (b), 24, 25(b), (d), (e), 26, 27,
28, 29, 30; Kim, “1960 nyôndae kunsa chôngjôn wiwônhoe-wa ‘chôngjôn ch’eje,’”
Yôksa-wa hyônsil 50 (2003), p. 169; Kim, op. cit., 2006, p. 3.
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