The frustration of some South Korean government officials with administration of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) has spilled into the open, even prompting a rare U.N. Command (UNC) press statement on the matter. 

The DMZ, which separates the two sides of the Korean Peninsula, is a military administrative area with codified responsibility split between the Korean People’s Army (KPA) in the north and the U.S.-led UNC in the south. 

But unification minister Chung Dong-young has repeatedly challenged this arrangement, suggesting that such conditions are an infringement upon South Korea’s sovereignty and