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the number of troops for rotation to 35,000 a month, Paragraph 42
(b-g) on the tasks and functions of the NNSC and Paragraph 43 on
stationing inspection teams at ten ports of entry were not observed. In
brief, Jhe’s research confirms, as this study has shown, that the
Armistice Agreement has been violated or poorly implemented and
concurs with the negative opinions recorded.
On the other hand, the retired South Korean General Lee
Sanghee argues (2007) that although North Korea has undermined
the Armistice Agreement, as a legal document it has not been nullified
and it has continued to be implemented. The MAC has not lost all of
its functionality. The agreement and enforcement of it have shown
instability and limitations but, along with the ROK-US Mutual
Defence Treaty and Alliance, it helped to prevent the outbreak of war
and to preserve peace, a fact that should not be underestimated. 361
This study gives credibility to this view.
7.3 The Work of the MAC and the NNSC
After the foundation of the KPA Panmunjom Mission on May
24, 1994, MAC secretary meetings were not held regularly. Instead,
meetings were held between personnel of the UNC/MAC Secretariat
and the KPA Senior Liaison Officer. Six meetings were held in 2001,
14 in 2002 and 13 in 2003. In 2001, staff officers meetings were
convened four times and a Joint Duty Officers meeting once. In
contrast, altogether 21 meetings took place in 2000, many of which
361_ Columbia University, ibid., Paragraph 1, 3, 10, 13(c), (d), 42(b-g), 43; Jhe, ibid.,
2000, pp. 78-80, 81-2, 84; Lee, op. cit., 2004, p. 149; Lee, op. cit., May 2, 2007, p.
3.
476 Peace-keeping in the Korean Peninsula