After President Moon Jae-in's 'Declaration of End of War' speech to the UN in September, North Korea's belated public release on the 4th was that Ambassador Kim Seong's request for the dismantlement of the UN Forces Command stationed in South Korea at the 4th Committee of the UN General Assembly on the 27th of last month was revealed.
North Korean Ambassador Kim Seong said at the UN 4th Committee, “It is well known that the UNC in South Korea was created illegally by the United States and has nothing to do with the United Nations in all aspects of administration and budget.” It was reported on the 4th by Voice of America (VOA).
Ambassador Kim said on the same day, "The United States' insistence on the existence of the UN Command is to legalize and perpetuate the occupation of Korea and to achieve political and military goals in the Asia-Pacific region." It is no different from the leading Combined Forces Command, and it is an abuse of the name of the United Nations,” he said.
The UNC is a US-led multinational military command established in accordance with a UN Security Council resolution at the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950. In the Korean War, it exercised operational control over the UN forces, including the South Korean military, and in 1953, the UNC signed the armistice agreement with North Korea and China as parties.
At the time of the signing of the armistice agreement in 1953, the UNC had a total of 932,964 personnel from 17 countries, including 590,000 South Korean soldiers.
The new issue of the UNC is the operation of Japan's seven rear bases, and the USFK's Yokosuka Naval Base has an aircraft carrier 'Ronald Reagan', and the USFK commander concurrently serves as the UN commander.
Japan's seven rear bases are managed by US forces in Japan, and they are used as bases for multinational forces in monitoring and crackdown on illegal transshipment of North Korean ships at sea for violations of sanctions against North Korea in accordance with the Security Council resolutions, thereby meeting the 'revocation of hostile policy toward North Korea' demanded by North Korea. connected
The 4th UN Committee, where North Korean Ambassador Kim Seong spoke, dealt with the issue of 'special politics and postcolonialism'.
In 2018, North Korea's UN Secretary-General Kim In-cheol called for the dissolution of the UN General Assembly by comparing it to a "monster" at the 6th Committee of the General Assembly (Legal Committee).
Regarding the '1975 UN General Assembly resolution to disband the UN Command' raised by North Korea, VOA said, <At that time, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution containing these contents. However, the UN General Assembly at the time also adopted a separate resolution containing South Korea's position, such as calling for inter-Korean dialogue, in response to the North's position, preventing it from coercing only one side's unilateral measures.