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soldiers from the war were returned on May 12, 1992. Another 15<br />

were returned on May 18 and 17 on July 12 through the same channel.<br />

After the UNC and North Korea on August 24, 1993 had signed an<br />

agreement on returning the remains of dead soldiers, 33 corpses were<br />

returned on November 30, 31 on December 7, 33 on December 14<br />

and 34 on December 21. Lee (2001a, 2004) explains their return with<br />

the wish to sign a peace treaty with the US and achieve the withdrawal<br />

of American forces. Since North Korea has consistently regarded the<br />

UNC only as a front organisation of the US in South Korea, the real<br />

party to the armistice is not the UNC Commander but the American<br />

government. Consequently, the two governments should sign a peace<br />

treaty enabling the withdrawal of American troops from South Korea<br />

and an ensuing peaceful settlement of the Korean question. 3<strong>09</strong><br />

According to Jhe (2000), since North Korea regarded the<br />

Basic Agreement and its annex on non-aggression as a declaration<br />

of North-South non-aggression, it only emphasized afterwards the<br />

signing of a peace treaty with the US. Compatriot scholar Bon Hak Koo<br />

(2006) argues that by containing a provision on non-aggression, the<br />

Basic Agreement made it unnecessary to sign a separate North-South<br />

peace treaty. The logical grounds for North Korea to sign a peace treaty<br />

with the US were that the two states had fought the Korean War, that<br />

3<strong>09</strong>_ Bucheli, ibid., p. 82; Chông, op. cit., pp. 91-2; Columbia University, op. cit., Paragraph<br />

6, 7, 8, 12; Kukpang chôngbo ponbu, op. cit., 1993, pp. 235, 411, 423,<br />

445-6: op. cit., 1997, pp. 43-4, 190; Lee, op. cit., 1998(e), pp. 10-11: op. cit.,<br />

2001(a), pp. 193-4: op. cit., 2004, pp. 150-2; Letter dated 15 June 1992 from the<br />

Charge d’Affaires A. I. of the United States Mission to the United Nations Addressed to<br />

the President of the Security Council (n. p., S/24467, 15 June, 1992), pp. 1, 2, 5, 6: op.<br />

cit.., S/24598, 29 September, 1992, pp. 1, 2. The August 24, 1993, agreement is<br />

recorded in Lee, ibid., 2004, pp. 266-7 and in Korean in Kukpang chôngbo<br />

ponbu, ibid., 1993, p. 422.<br />

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

399

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