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issues to be raised in the Commission. On April 6, the party paper<br />

Rodong Sinmun [Workers’ Daily] accused the US of the appointment,<br />

which was motivated by the wish “...to avoid its legal duty to replace<br />

the Armistice Agreement with a peace treaty [between the U.S. and<br />

North Korea] and to remain in South Korea permanently.” 302<br />

On April 10, the KPA urged the UNC to arrange an informal<br />

meeting between the two Korean Senior Members to restore the<br />

functions of the MAC, but the UNC dismissed the proposal, arguing<br />

that other tactics were behind it. Moreover, the UNC/MAC Senior<br />

Member could not meet his KPA/CPV counterpart as an individual<br />

informally. On the same day, North Korea announced that the annual<br />

visit by the NNSC to Kim Il Sung’s birthday (April 15) and the Korean<br />

People’s Army’s Foundation Day (April 25) was postponed<br />

indefinitely. Additionally, since the NNSC in essence did not at all<br />

contribute to solving the issues of the Armistice Agreement, the<br />

Commission was not needed any more, which was in sharp contrast to<br />

previous views.<br />

At the 459th MAC meeting called by the KPA/CPV held on<br />

February 13, 1991, the North protested against Team Spirit ’91, which<br />

it regarded as an offensive exercise in preparation for war and<br />

demanded an immediate halt. The exercise violated the preamble of<br />

the Armistice Agreement and Paragraph 13(c) and (d). The UNC/MAC<br />

Senior Member responded that he well knew the North’s position and<br />

302_ Bucheli, ibid., p. 66; Chông, “Nambuk wiwônhoe-ûi yangsan-gwa hyujôn ch’eje-<br />

ûi hôjôm - 7.27 hyujôn 39nyôn, chôngjôn kwalli kinûng-ûi mabi sangt’ae,” Chayu<br />

kongnon (1992.7), pp. 92, 93; Holmberg, Månadsrapport april (n. p., April 30,<br />

1991), p. 4; Jhe, op. cit., 2000, p. 111; Kim, ibid., 2006(a), p. 86; Lee, ibid., 2001<br />

(b), pp. 121-2: op. cit., 2004, p. 230; Sandoz, op. cit., 1993(a), p. 217. Original<br />

quotation from Bucheli, ibid., p. 66.<br />

North Korea Incapacitates the MAC and the NNSC in the 1990s<br />

389

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