U.N Command to mark change of neutral commission member

SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Yonhap) -- The United Nations Command (UNC) will host an honor
guard ceremony next week for the outgoing Swedish member of the Neutral Nations
Supervisory Commission, Maj. Gen. Sture Theolin, the UNC said Thursday.
The ceremony will also mark the arrival of Maj. Gen. Christer Lidstrom, the new
Swedish member of the U.N. commission, whose main task is to maintain the Korean
armistice that ended the Korean War, it said.
It will be held Tuesday at the Knight Field, Yongsan Garrison.
The Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission (NNSC) was established under the
Korean armistice, signed July 27, 1953, with delegations from Sweden and
Switzerland stationed on the South Korean side of the demilitarized zone and
those from the Czech Republic and Poland stationed in the North.
Pyongyang, however, expelled the commission members from its former communist
allies in the 1990s in an attempt to incapacitate the U.N. commission.
The NNSC now only exists on the South Korean side of the demilitarized zone that
divides the two Koreas. It consists of five Swiss and five Swedish
representatives.