Usage and Conventional Misuse
The Korean Armistice Agreement is the primary source which defines the MDL; and 21st century scholarly/academic secondary sources continue to recognize this as fundamental. The Armistice is monitored by members of the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission composed of members from the Swiss and Swedish Armed Forces.
Military Demarcation Line is a de jure term and MDL is an explicit acronym which remain valid today because no mutually acceptable changes have been made. The use of the term or acronym or line which is not explicitly mentioned in the 1953 KAA is not verifiable within the ambit of the primary source text.
The unresolved aftermath of the Korean War has revealed unique, region-specific facets of this conflict. Although the Korean Armistice Agreement specifies where the demarcation line and demilitarized zone are located on land, the agreement does not mention lines or zones in adjacent ocean waters.
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Famous quotes containing the words usage, conventional and/or misuse:
“Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates—but pages
Might be filled up, as vainly as before,
With the sad usage of all sorts of sages,
Who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore!
The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“The mastery of one’s phonemes may be compared to the violinist’s mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor’s renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.”
—W.V. Quine (b. 1908)
“I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)