The United Nations Command Monday denounced North Korea's detonation of land mines in the demilitarized zone last week, calling the blasts violations of the armistice agreement.
  

The UNC also said it plans to propose a general officer level-dialogue with North Korea.
  

"The UNC condemns these violations of the Armistice Agreement, and will call for a general officer level-dialogue with the Korean People's Army," the UNC said, without elaborating on when the proposal will be made.
  

Three North Korean wooden-box land mines were the cause of the explosion on the southern side of the DMZ on Aug. 4, South Korea's military investigation showed earlier in the day. The detonation injured two South Korean staff sergeants.
  

The South Korean military said that North Korean soldiers secretly buried the mines around a South Korea military-guarded door leading out to the DMZ between the two Koreas.
  

"The North Korean People's Army violated paragraphs 6, 7 and 8 of the Armistice Agreement by emplacing wooden box land mines along a known Republic of Korea patrol route in the southern half of the DMZ," the UNC said in a statement.
  

The concerned paragraphs prohibit the two sides from any acts of aggression in the DMZ, unauthorized crossing of the military demarcation line in the middle of the DMZ and entering into the territory controlled by the other side.
  

The UNC also came up with the same conclusion as the South, saying that "the devices were recently emplaced" by the North.
  

From Aug. 5-6, a special investigation team, composed of officials from the UNC, South Korea, the U.S., New Zealand and Colombia, conducted an examination of the blast under the UNC's Military Armistice Commission, it also said.
  

The UNC also reiterated its commitment to "maintaining the Armistice Agreement" and the preservation of peace on the Korean Peninsula. (Yonhap)