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etween November 29, 1953 and February 12, 1954, the Swedish
Major General Paul Mohn, at the 105th NNSC meeting held on February
17, did not let their one-sided and improper acts pass unnoticed and
asked:
“Under what circumstances will the NNSC be allowed to send Mobile
Inspection Teams to the territory controlled by the North Korean and
Chinese side? Am I to understand that the side itself has to acknowledge
the violation before a Mobile Inspection Team is allowed to go out? Should
that be the case, I think that both sides could scrap Paragraph 28 of the
Armistice Agreement right away.” 32
2.4 Violations of the Armistice Agreement
North Korea clearly violated the Armistice Agreement by severely
restricting the inspection teams’ work, but the UNC also violated it.
Already at the third MAC meeting called by the KPA/CPV held on July
30, it was agreed that military police should be used in the DMZ
instead of civilian police who in contrast, are, as we have seen, permitted
according to Paragraph 10. At the fourth meeting proposed by
the UNC/MAC held on July 31, it was agreed “... that civil police would
be armed only with rifles and pistols” but automatic rifles were not
included. Subsequently, both sides began continuously to bring in
so-called DMZ police to the zone. They were not police but combat
personnel wearing armbands; in the end, the DMZ came to lose its real
meaning. Later, combat soldiers also entered the zone. According to
the South Korean scholar Seong Ho Jhe (1997), immediately after the
32_ Downs, Over the Line: North Korea’s Negotiating Strategy (Washington: The
American Enterprise Institute Press, 1999), p. 106; Lee, ibid., 1998(a), p. 7.
40 Peace-keeping in the Korean Peninsula