By I would see these guys up on the DMZ and think they must have one of the easiest jobs of any soldier in Korea:
Every week for the past 15 years, an armistice-monitoring group on the South Korean side of the DMZ has placed communications in a mailbox here for North Korean officials to read.
And every week for those 15 years, no one from the North has picked up the documents.
The wooden box — on a wall in a conference building on the Military Demarcation Line that divides the two Koreas — serves as a symbol of a quiet battle of wills being waged by North Korea and the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission.
North Korea has refused since 1995 to recognize the existence of the commission on grounds that the body was formed through the armistice that ended Korean War hostilities in 1953 — a document the rogue nation says is no longer valid.
At about the same time, it went as far as forcing the Czech and Polish delegations — which were charged with monitoring adherence to the armistice in North Korea — out of the country.
Meanwhile, commission delegations from Sweden and Switzerland stubbornly continue to perform their duties of monitoring military activities in South Korea, as outlined in the cease-fire agreement, and leaving minutes of their weekly meetings in a mailbox marked “KPA” — for Korea People’s Army — just inside an unlocked door leading to the North Korea side of the DMZ. [Stars & Stripes]
You can read the rest of this story at the link.
8:59 pm on February 3rd, 2010 1
Not news. Not even interesting.
3:11 am on February 4th, 2010 2
I saw what I think was a guy in the Swiss contingent when I was in Korea. He was a skinny, weaselly looking guy who wore a black leather jacket, civillian office-style clothes and a black beret with a Swiss flag attached to it.
3:28 am on February 4th, 2010 3
12:36 pm on February 4th, 2010 4
Good publicity for the Swiss. Doing their duty for world peace. Probobly gets great kudos back home. "You see vat ve do for ze vorld, not just chocolate you know"
4:03 pm on February 4th, 2010 5
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3:55 am on February 5th, 2010 6
Hey Gerry! How dare only mention chocolate, they make great cheese too!!
7:47 pm on February 14th, 2010 7
Actualy it's not something the Swiss media talk about in Switzerland, The first time I heard about it was in JSA (and I thought it was fictional).
Other then that I think we have/had soldier stationed in Kosovo. Other then that I don't know.
But We keep the chocolate and your money safe!