Conflict Management and Dispute Settlement in East Asia by Amer Ramses;Zou Keyuan;

Author:Amer, Ramses;Zou, Keyuan;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2016-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

The general finally demanded that the UNC admit the ‘aggressive act’ committed by the US Navy ‘armed spy ship’, apologize for it, severely punish those who were responsible and assure that it would not commit such provocation again. North Korea reiterated the same demand in public and private sessions of the MAC while the Pueblo negotiations went on. Admiral Smith regarded this distorted version of the incident as an intention to divert attention from the assassination attempt of President Park and the seizure of the Pueblo. General Pak responded that the UNC could not evade discussion of the Pueblo’s espionage attempts and urged that his counterpart return with an answer to the North’s charges at the next meeting. Notably, the American view was that the Pueblo worked on intelligence gathering but for North Korea it was espionage.

Admiral Smith reminded him that an official communication from the US government had already been presented that was intended for immediate transmission to Premier Kim Il Sung. Meanwhile, only two days after the Pueblo had been seized, Radio P’yôngyang announced that Commander Bucher had presented a written confession that his ship:

spied on various military installations … along the east coast areas and sailed up to the point 7.6 miles off Yo-do … intruded deep into the territorial waters of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and was captured by the naval patrol craft of the Korean People’s Army in their self-defence action … and we only hope … that we will be forgiven leniently by the Government of the DPRK (Downs 1999: 125).

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