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“I duly received from the Korean People’s Army/Chinese People’s Volunteers
side together with his personal belongings the following pilot of the
United Nations Command side who crossed the Military Demarcation Line
in violation of the Armistice Agreement to intrude into the air above the
territory under the military control of the KPA/CPV side and was shot
down on March 6, 1958.” 49
Other kinds of armistice violations were also raised in the MAC.
At the 53rd meeting requested by the KPA/CPV held on February 9,
1955, the North claimed that a military reconnaissance plane and a
formation of eight military planes had crossed the MDL and carried
out [non-defined] hostile actions, but the South refuted the claim.
Among the North’s 398 accusations of MDL crossings made up to
February 8 the same year, 384 had been investigated, 358 of which
had proved groundless. When the 54th meeting called by the KPA/
CPV took place on February 10, the South admitted that a small,
unarmed transport plane on January 20 had intruded into the North’s
airspace due to inclement weather but criticized the attack on it (no.
15). Whether unarmed or not, the North asserted that the intrusion in
itself was a hostile act. At the 59th meeting proposed by the KPA/CPV
convened on June 14, the North asserted that on June 2 armed personnel
from the South had crossed the MDL and carried out [nondefined]
hostile acts in which two of them were killed. The South
claimed that they were engaged in normal work when they were
deliberately killed and protested the act as non-human.
49_ Downs, ibid., pp. 111, 303: fn. 50; Hapch’am chôngbo ponbu, ibid., 1999, pp.
60-61; Kukpang chôngbo ponbu, ibid., 1993, pp. 56-7, 285; Lee, ibid., 2001(a),
pp. 53, 121: ibid., 2004, pp. 22, 55, 121; Weilenmann, op. cit., 2004, p. 12.
Original quotation marks. Chinnamp’o is now called Namp’o.
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