§ Lord Kennetasked Her Majesty's Government:
What in their view is the status of the United Nations forces and weaponry and other equipment currently present in South Korea and if there is still any de jure link between those forces, and the United Nations Command which was established to repulse the North Korean forces invading South Korea some 45 years ago.
§ Baroness Chalker of WallaseyThe Unified United Nations Command, which was established in 1950, remains legally in existence. Its prime purpose is to oversee the 1953 Armistice Agreement on behalf of the United Nations. It was to this Command that 16 members of the United Nations, including the UK, sent forces in 1950 to repel the North Korean invasion of South Korea. The Command has no forces of its own; should it require them, it would in the first instance draw on those of the US-Republic of Korea Combined Forces Command, which was established in 1978.