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At the 63rd MAC meeting proposed by the KPA/CPV convened
on August 6, 1955, the North claimed that on July 22 two armed
vessels from the South had intruded into its territorial waters and
seized three fishing boats with 20 fishermen. Another armed vessel
had seized one fishing boat with 12 fishermen. The South denied the
accusations. 50
At the 128th MAC secretary meeting held on March 8, 1955, the
North denied the South’s charge of four airspace violations made on
January 3. The South admitted one of the eleven accusations of airspace
violations made by the North on January 21, but it denied the charge
by the North of airspace violations on February 14 made at the 53rd
plenary meeting held on February 9 (no. 16). At the 130th secretary
meeting held on April 25, the South admitted one of the 12 cases of
airspace violations made by the North at the 129th meeting convened
on April 8 (no. 17).
When the 133rd meeting took place on June 20, the North denied
the South’s claim of three airspace violations made at the 129th meeting
held on April 8. At the 143rd meeting held on October 18, the North
refuted the South’s protest against airspace violations made at the
139th meeting convened on September 6. The South denied the
North’s charges of 15 airspace violations made at that time. At the
145th meeting convened on December 20, the South admitted that a
helicopter on December 7 had violated the North’s airspace and
protested against the North’s non-human act of firing at it (no. 18).
The North refuted the accusations of airspace violations made at the
50_ Hapch’am chôngbo ponbu, ibid., 1999, pp. 38, 39, 43; Kukpang chôngbo ponbu,
ibid., 1993, pp. 43, 45-6.
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