KOREAN TRUCE SUPERVISION

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27961, 7 May 1956, Page 13

KOREAN TRUCE SUPERVISION

U.S. Seeks Abolition Of Commission (Rec. 8 p.m.) WASHINGTON. May 5. The United States told its Korean war allies today that steps should be taken soon to abolish the long-disputed Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission set up b\ the armistice which ended the war in 1953. There are four countries on the commission Switzerland, Sweden. Poland, and Czechoslovakia. The functions of the group have been sharply curtailed in the last two years and it now has only three truce inspection teams operating in South Korea and three in Communist North Korea. The long-standing complaint of the United States and the South Korean President. Dr. Syngman Rhee, has been that the Communist regime in North Korea prevented the truce team from working effectively to check Communist violations of the armistice terms. The United States early last year told the Allied countries, there were 16 under the United Nations Command in Korea—that the Communists had illegally built up a jet fighter force in North Korea and had taken other steps to upset the balance of military power there. The armistice provided that the military balance should be frozen as at the end of the war. Today, Mr Robert Murphy. a Deputy Under-Secretary of State, called representatives of the Allied embassies in Washington to the State Department to discuss the situation for the first time since early last year.