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After joining the US-led United Nations Command (UNC) in South Korea, Germany is prepared in principle to provide personnel to monitor the ceasefire on the Korean peninsula, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said during a visit to the buffer zone to North Korea. Berlin is weighing how best to support South Korea, he said on Friday. “We will now sound this out until the end of the year and then move on to the next phase,” he said at the Camp Bonifas military base. Camp Bonifas is home to the UNC, which monitors the Korean Armistice Agreement of 1953 between North and South Korea. It is close to …

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