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Dismantlement of U.S.-S. Korea "Combined Command" Demanded

KCNA

    Pyongyang, November 7 (KCNA) -- The U.S. should abandon its anachronistic hostile policy toward the DPRK, dismantle the U.S.-south Korea "combined command" and withdraw the U.S. troops from south Korea, says Minju Joson today in a signed commentary 25 years since the formation of the "combined command." It is shame on the Korean nation that U.S. troops are still present in south Korea under the signboard of the "combined command" though more than 3 years have passed since the publication of the June 15 joint declaration, the commentary says, adding that the formation of the "combined command" was a product of the U.S. imperialists' plan to perpetuate their military presence in south Korea.
    The U.S. imperialists have painted the "combined command" as one for south Korean "security" but the massacre in Kwangju proved that it was a sheer lie, the commentary notes, and continues:
    As clearly proved by the 25 year-long history of the "combined command," it has been chiefly to blame for the danger of a nuclear war brought to the Korean nation and for all sorts of misfortune and pain the Korean people have undergone.
    It is self-evident that the Korean nation can never escape from a nuclear disaster nor achieve national independence and reunification as long as there remains the "combined command", the U.S. imperialists' tool for a war of aggression.
    The nation is in the era of national independent reunification in which all Koreans are struggling to implement the June 15 joint declaration with their concerted efforts.
    The dismantlement of the "combined command" and the withdrawal of the U.S. troops from south Korea are the unanimous desire of all Koreans and the most urgent need of the times.
    All Koreans in the north and the south and overseas will intensify the struggle to have the "combined command" disbanded and all the U.S. troops withdrawn from south Korea.