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Korean peninsula.” 307<br />

In contrast, the South Korean government and the US actively<br />

supported the NNSC, arguing that so long as a peace treaty did not<br />

exist, the Commission should remain in Panmunjom. This opinion<br />

was stressed in particular by the Deputy Minister of Unification, Lim<br />

Tong Won. Moreover, the UNC Commander, General Robert W.<br />

RisCassi, had said on June 23, 1992: “...your presence and contribution<br />

to maintaining stability on the Peninsula are more vital than ever.” In<br />

1992, North Korea continued its policy of avoiding contact with the<br />

NNSC, but some meetings took place between the KPA and<br />

Commission members creating at least some confidence. In spring<br />

1993, North Korea boycotted all NNSC members with the exception<br />

of the delegations’ secretaries, although by signing the 1991 Basic<br />

Agreement it had acknowledged the Armistice Agreement and thereby<br />

also the further existence of the NNSC.<br />

In 1992, Rolf Stalder, official at the Swiss Embassy in Seoul,<br />

wrote that the NNSC was important as a channel of North-South<br />

communications even during the last years of direct inter-Korean<br />

contacts but, above all, by maintaining contacts even during periods of<br />

tension. On the other hand, he emphasized that, in spite of recent<br />

contacts, North-South distrust remained very high. From that point of<br />

view, the NNSC was an important element of stabilization whose<br />

307_ Bucheli, ibid. pp. 68-9, 85; Holmberg, Månadsrapport juni (June 30, 1991), p. 4;<br />

Jhe, ibid., 2000, p. 96: fn. 57; Kim, ibid., 2006(b), pp. 105-106; Kukpang chôngbo<br />

ponbu, ibid., 1993, p. 410: op. cit., 1997, p. 139; Letter dated 28 September 1992<br />

from the Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the<br />

United Nations Addressed to the President of the Security Council (n. p., S/24598, 29<br />

September, 1992), pp. 4-6; Mueller-Lhotska and Millett, ibid., p. 127; Sandoz, op.<br />

cit., 1993(b), p. 339. Original quotation from Kim, ibid., 2006(b), p. 105.<br />

396 Peace-keeping in the Korean Peninsula

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