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19, the date suggested by the South.<br />

On August 12 at “Re-unification House” in Panmunjom, the two<br />

Koreas confirmed that they had both removed propaganda equipment<br />

directed against the other side. They also re-confirmed that they<br />

would thereafter cease propaganda activities and, as agreed, not<br />

establish propaganda equipment. In 2006, some of the hundreds of<br />

megaphones directed at North Korea were temporarily stored at the<br />

parking site of the restored Kim Il Sung villa at Lake Hwajinp’o along<br />

the East Sea as a gift from the Ministry of National Defence to Kangwôn<br />

province. The villa got its name since there are photos taken of Kim Il<br />

Sung’s family there. 373<br />

The removal of propaganda equipment should have helped to<br />

create confidence, but peace was not secured. A joint study from 2007<br />

by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and<br />

the Center for Security Studies (CSS) in Zürich argues:<br />

“The forward deployment of forces on both sides of the DMZ is currently<br />

the greatest threat to peace on the Korean peninsula. On the North Koreas<br />

side, it has been estimated that around 70 per cent of the armed forces are<br />

deployed south of the Pyongyang-Wonsan line. Along with this massive<br />

man-power, much of North Korea’s heavy offensive armaments are also<br />

deployed in these areas. In particular, North Korea is estimated to have<br />

stationed large amounts of long-range artillery along the northern side of<br />

the DMZ, some of which are capable of reaching Seoul.”<br />

Previously, on March 7, 2000, the former UNC Commander,<br />

373_ Frisk, Rapport för maj 2004: Bilaga 1 (n. p., May 31, 2004), p. 2: ibid., November<br />

22, 2006; Hapch’am chôngbo ponbu, op. cit., 2003, p. 50; Jonsson, ibid., p. 92;<br />

Kim, op. cit., 2006(d), pp. 242-3; Kim, op. cit., June 2006, pp. 186, 187; Lim, op.<br />

cit., pp. 53, 67; Son, “Kunsa hoedam,” in T’ongil yôn’guwôn, T’ongil hwangyông-<br />

mit Nambukhan kwangye chônmang: 2005~2006 (Seoul: T’ongil yôn’guwôn,<br />

2005), pp. 95, 96-7; Swedish officer, e-mail, March 1, 20<strong>09</strong>.<br />

494 Peace-keeping in the Korean Peninsula

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