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U.S. Urged to Make Bold Decision to Withdraw Its Troops from South Korea

KCNA

Release Date: 9/10/2003

Pyongyang, September 8 (KCNA) -- The Korean people have been suffering the tragedy and disgrace of national division and living in instability and uneasiness for nearly 60 years owing to the U.S. imperialists' occupation of south Korea and their policy of division and policy to stifle the DPRK. Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed commentary on the lapse of 58 years since their military occupation of south Korea on September 8, 1945.

It goes on:

The U.S. troops' occupation of south Korea must no longer be allowed in the new century.

Paragraph 60 of Article IV of the Armistice Agreement stipulates that within three months after the AA is signed, a political conference of a higher level of both sides be held to settle through negotiation the question of the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Korea.

China completely withdrew its troops from the Korean front in 1958 according to the requirement of the AA and no foreign troops stay in the northern half of Korea.

Fifteen countries of those which had sent their troops to the UN Forces, except the United States, pulled their troops out of south Korea.

There is no justification or excuse for the U.S. to keep its troops in south Korea today when the Cold War came to an end and the Soviet Union collapsed.

The United States is escalating nuclear pressure on the DPRK under the pretext of "nuclear threat" from it and bringing the DPRK-U.S. belligerent relations to an explosive phase. This has carried the situation on the Korean peninsula into an extreme pitch of strain. The situation is very dangerous and the outbreak of the second Korean war is a matter of time. The withdrawal of the U.S. troops from south Korea has not been raised so urgently as now. It is a touchstone judging and verifying whether the U.S. has willingness to sign a non-aggression treaty with the DPRK and drop its hostile policy to stifle the DPRK, or not. It is a historical time the U.S. pulled its troops out of south Korea with "honor", not losing its face.

If the U.S. truly wants to prevent a war on the Korean peninsula and ensure peace there and improve the DPRK-U.S. relations, it should make a bold decision to withdraw its troops from south Korea at an early date.