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143rd and 144th meetings held on October 18 and November 29<br />

respectively. 51<br />

Whereas the data on armistice violations so far recorded are<br />

largely from MAC protocols, a report from 1955 by the Republic of<br />

Korea, Office of Public Information, contains some of the results of the<br />

interrogations by the Ministry of Home Affairs in charge of the police,<br />

the Intelligence Division of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Joint Provost<br />

Marshal General Headquarters of captured North Korean agents,<br />

defected soldiers and refugees [but how the work was conducted is not<br />

explained]. The Ministry of Home Affairs interrogated 29 agents, who<br />

were divided into seven cases between September 21, 1954, and June<br />

25, 1955 [date lacking in the first case]. Violations included introduction<br />

of a variety of combat material from mainly the Soviet Union<br />

outside the ports of entry, widening of existing military airfields and<br />

construction of new ones nation-wide.<br />

Reports by the Joint Chiefs of Staff included 28 surrendered<br />

soldiers divided into 26 cases between January 17, 1954 and June 21,<br />

1955. The Joint Provost Marshal General Headquarters recorded 41<br />

cases of 42 soldiers captured between September 26, 1953 and June<br />

22, 1955 [dates lacking in two cases], six cases of six spies captured<br />

between September 1953 and May 5, 1955 and three cases of three<br />

civilian refugees who escaped between March and May 20, 1955.<br />

Statements by soldiers, spies and refugees reveal the same kinds of<br />

violations as stated by agents. Data on military strength confirming the<br />

military build-up are recorded, but figures on the number of soldiers<br />

differ somewhat in the statements recorded by the Joint Provost<br />

51_ Kukpang chôngbo ponbu, ibid., 1993, pp. 271, 272-3, 274, 275, 277, 278.<br />

60 Peace-keeping in the Korean Peninsula

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