Poland Foreign Minister Says Polish Troops Could Return to the Korean DMZ
It will be interesting to see if the Poles return to the DMZ, this time on the Southern side:
Poland, once a member of the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission (NNSC), could re-establish its presence in the demilitarized zone on the Korean Peninsula if asked to do so by its counterparts, said Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz during his recent visit to Seoul.
“At this moment the Polish mission is unable to implement its mandate in its initial location north of the 38th parallel, because after the political transformation established in Europe in 1989, the DPRK expelled Poland from the DMZ,” Minister Czaputowicz told the Korea JoongAng Daily on Monday, during his visit to meet with his counterpart South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha, using the acronyms for North Korea’s official name, which is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and DMZ for the demilitarized zone, located between the two Koreas.
As Poland already has an embassy in Pyongyang, established in 1950, the minister was speaking of the presence the Polish government had in the demilitarized zone as a member of the NNSC, from 1953 to 1995. North Korea expelled the Polish presence in 1995 following the collapse of communism in Poland and its joining of NATO in 1989.
Joong Ang Ilbo
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Poland, free of communism, has often defended freedom. From Jan Sobieski defeating the Ottomans on September 11 (or 12 in some accounts) 1683 outside the gates of Vienna to the snatching of a German Enigma machine in 1939 to Lech Walesa and Solidarity in the 1980s, to name but three historical milestones, they have been crucial to Western Civilization…
It’s wonderful they’re again strong enough to help others.
Hopefully, there are no light bulbs that need screwed in.
CH, with the advent of LED lighting systems there are less bulbs to screw in.