Communists Charged With Korea Truce Breach

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27591, 23 February 1955, Page 13

Communists Charged With Korea Truce Breach

(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright)

(Rec. 8 p.m.) SEOUL, February 22. The United Nations has charged the Chinese Communists with illegally bringing M.I.G. jet fighters into North Korea since the armistice. At a meeting of the Military Armistice Commission, the senior United Nations delegate, Major-General Leslie D. Carter, referred to the Yellow Sea incident of February 5, in which Communist jet planes were alleged to have attacked a United States reconnaissance plane and escorting Sabre jets. General Carter said the Communist attack was unprovoked and unwarranted.

He said the attacking planes had been followed by radar from their take-off to their return to an air base in North Korea, proving that they had been brought in in violation of the armistice agreement.

The senior United Nations delegate recalled that there were no MiG’s in North Korea when the agreements were signed.

General Carter told the Communists that the Allied side intended to exercise its legal rights and to continue flights over international waters.

He warned them that if United Nations aircraft were attacked in future “they will protect themselves.” After the meeting General Carter told reporters that the Communists had denied the United Nations charge, and claimed that they had strong air power in North Korea during the war.