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Article: U.N. Command to Relocate Its Armistice Commission.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- November 5, 2004
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SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Yonhap) -- The U.S.-led United Nations Command in Seoul said Friday that it will relocate its armistice panel to an area on the border with North Korea by next month.The U.N. command's Military Armistice Commission is tasked with overseeing the cease-fire accord that ended the 1950-53 Korean War.The command said in a statement that it will redeploy most of its armistice commission's contingent to the inter-border village of Panmunjom, also known as the Joint Security Area. The area is a small oval-shaped enclave sitting on the western sector of the 248-kilometer-long inter-Korean border.
The relocation is aimed ...