1. At the request of the US government, on March 9 (Korean time), the UN Secretariat circulated as a 
UN official document the UN Command (UNC)’s special investigation report on North Korea’s artillery 
provocation on Yeonpyeong Island on November 23, 2010.

* The UNC conducted a special investigation into the Yeonpyeong shelling on December 6-13, including 
an on-site investigation by the special investigation team of its Military Armistice Commission with Neutral 
Nations Supervisory Commission officials as witnesses.

* Under UN Security Council Resolutions 84 and 85 adopted during the Korean War, the UNC has the 
responsibility to report its activities to the Security Council.

2. The report carries significance in that, drawing upon the findings from the UNC’s on-site investigation 
and relevant information, it objectively shows North Korea’s artillery provocation on Yeonpyeong Island 
was a deliberate and premeditated attack in violation of the Armistice Agreement.

* The main content of the UNC’s special report on the Yeonpyeong shelling consists of an outline; facts; 
assessment; and suggestions.

­- Facts: background behind the ROK military’s live-fire drills near the five Western border islands; and 
explanation on the circumstances involving the ROK military’s firing drills and North Korea’s artillery 
provocation on Yeonpyeong Island

­- Assessment: The ROK military’s live-fire drills constitute neither a hostility/ use of armed force against 
North Korea nor a breach of the Armistice Agreement; the North Korean military’s artillery attack on 
Yeonpyeong Island is a hostility against the ROK and its military that was deliberate and premeditated 
and cannot be justified as a self-defensive act; the ROK Marines’ counter-firing on Mu Island and 
Gaemeori can be justified as the exercise of the right of self-defense, and complies with the Armistice 
Agreement, the UN Charter, and Customary International Law, as well as the spirit and provisions of 
the Armistice Agreement.

­- Suggestions to the UNC: no need for further probe; the results of the UNC’s special investigation 
be reported to the UN Security Council; a high-level meeting be held between the UNC and the North 
Korean military; the UNC Member States Liaison Officers Corps/Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission 
and the ROK government hold a meeting (in Seoul) on possible  measures to guarantee a halt to North 
Korea’s further violations of the Armistice Agreement as well as hostilities and use of armed force against 
the ROK; and, in accordance with Paragraph 60 of the Armistice Agreement, relevant countries conclude 
an appropriate agreement for peaceful resolution.

                  Spokesperson and Deputy Minister for Public Relations of MOFAT

* unofficial translation