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Additional Troop Dispatch to Iraq Opposed in S. Korea

KCNA

Release Date: 10/02/2003

Pyongyang, October 1 (KCNA) -- A rally reportedly took place near Chongwadae on Sept. 25 to oppose increased military spendings and additional troop dispatch to Iraq under the co-sponsorship of the Democratic Workers' Party, the Men of Opening Peace and Reunification and the Confederation of Trade Unions of south Korea. It was noted at the rally that the profuse military spendings appropriated by the authorities in disregard of the people's living will be used for the U.S. strategy to make a preemptive attack on the DPRK.

The speakers at the rally denounced the authorities' view that if they accepted the U.S. demand for additional troop dispatch, its stand toward the Korean peninsula would change.

Meanwhile, the Women's Committee of the Reunification Solidarity for the Implementation of the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration and Peace on the Korean Peninsula held an inaugural rally of a women's movement of declaration against troop dispatch to Iraq and for the achievement of peace on the Korean peninsula in Seoul on Sept. 25.

A press conference was called to put open questions on the U.S. demand for dispatching south Korean troops to the Iraqi war in front of the U.S. embassy in Seoul on Sept. 26 under the sponsorship of the Headquarters of the Movement against U.S. and War and for Urging the Conclusion of Non-aggression Treaty between the DPRK and the U.S.