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630 Peace-keeping in the Korean Peninsula<br />

weapons and brand-new combat equipment into South Korea<br />

to conduct TS-85 in violation of Paragraph 12 and 13(d) and<br />

urges a halt and withdrawal of manpower and equipment. The<br />

South argues that the exercise’s purpose was to prepare to meet<br />

the North’s threat. The exercise took place while dialogue<br />

made progress in 1976, 1977, 1979 and 1983.<br />

April 15 The telephone line that connects all NNSC countries is for the<br />

first time brought into use.<br />

May 27-30 At the eighth round of Red Cross talks held in Seoul, the South<br />

suggests holding family re-unions on August 15.<br />

Summer Mobile TV cameras are installed along both sides of the MDL in<br />

Panmunjom for control purposes.<br />

June 30 The KPA/CPV and the UNC take part in celebrations of the<br />

32nd anniversary of the armistice.<br />

July 23 The first preliminary contacts on holding inter-Korean<br />

parliamentary talks take place in the NNSC conference room<br />

August 22 The two Koreas agree to hold the first family re-unions in Seoul<br />

and P’yôngyang on September 20-23; they are held as<br />

scheduled.<br />

October 26 At the 430th MAC meeting, the South asserts that on October<br />

20 an unidentified vessel had intruded into the Pusan area. It<br />

was an armed intrusion boat and was sunk in an counterattack,<br />

but the North rejects the South’s version.<br />

December 6 At the 431st MAC meeting, the North asserts that at a time<br />

when North-South economic and Red Cross talks and family<br />

re-unions were taking place, military exercises continued. The<br />

South argues that the MAC is an inappropriate forum to raise<br />

them in and that the Armistice Agreement does not mention<br />

military exercises.<br />

December 31 New Year is jointly celebrated by both the North and the South<br />

for the first time.

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