United Nations Command Security Battalion - Joint Security Area
The United Nations Command Security Battalion - Joint Security Area is a unit that is intended to support the United Nations Command in matters relating to the ceasefire agreement with North Korea . It is the only unit that consists of US and Korean soldiers. The unit was established on May 5, 1952.
assignment
The original mandate was to support negotiations on a ceasefire agreement. The commander may also contact the military or other people from the People's Republic of Korea. After 1954, the battalion was given the task of guarding the Joint Security Area (JSA), Daeseong-dong and Camp Bonfitas , regulating access to the United Nations Command Military Armistice Commission Headquarters , supporting the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission and providing education - Carry out an orientation program for the public about the demilitarized zone.
history
The unit was responsible for conducting Operation Big Switch , Operation Comeback and Operation Rainbow, exchanging over 100,000 prisoners of war . These three operations were honored with the Meritorious Unit Citation . When the Korean People's Army attacked Camp Kitty Hawk in 1967 , three soldiers died. Operation Breeches Buoy was carried out in November , and the crew of the USS Pueblo was able to return home after 11 months in captivity. Operation Runaway was carried out in 1970 , with the passengers of a hijacked Korean Air Lines plane being transferred back to South Korea ( Korean Air Lines flight YS-11 ). The ax murder occurred in 1976 when North Korean soldiers killed two soldiers in the battalion with an ax while they were guarding a tree-cutting operation in the JSA. This event then led to Operation Paul Bunyan , in which the tree was felled under strict military control. In 1984 a Soviet citizen fled the north to the south, with North Korean forces invading the United Nations Command sector and engaging in a gun battle with the battalion. One soldier from the battalion and three North Korean soldiers were killed. A similar incident occurred in 1989 when a Chinese soldier deserted and fled to South Korea with his wife.
Web links
- Insignia of the United Nations Command Security Battalion - Joint Security Area
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c John Rhodes: United Nations Command Joint Security Area. (No longer available online.) 2010, archived from the original on September 10, 2016 ; accessed on September 11, 2016 .
- ↑ MILITARY ARMISTICE COMMISSION HEADQUARTERS AREA EDUCATION AND ORIENTATION PROGRAMS. March 24, 2015, p. 4ff , archived from the original on September 12, 2015 ; accessed on September 11, 2016 .