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

KCNA

    Pyongyang, November 8 (KCNA) -- The U.S. announced its plan to set up the "Combined Command" in south Korea on November 7, 1978 and decided to transfer the prerogative of the "UN Command" to command the U.S. troops in south Korea and the ROK army to the "Combined Command". This was aimed to retain its grip on south Korea as its permanent military strategic base and escalate its moves to launch an adventurous war of aggression against the north, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary. Over the last 25 years since the formation of this command for aggression the movement for independence and democracy in the south Korean society and the cause of peace and reunification on the Korean peninsula have faced grave challenges, the commentary says, and goes on:
    Since then the U.S. forces present in south Korea have been massively beefed up and the campaign for a war of aggression of the north has been further intensified.
    This is evidenced by the Team Spirit joint war exercises staged by the U.S. and south Korea. The number of troops involved in the north-targeted war maneuvers had gradually increased from 100,000 to over 200,000 since 1978, the year when the command was formed. Ulji Focus Lens, Foal Eagle, Hwarang and many other war exercises of various code names and U.S.-Japan joint military exercises under the simulated conditions of an "emergency" on the Korean peninsula are still going on under the control of the South Korea-U.S. "Combined Command."
    The command has stepped up the process of fascistizing the south Korean society while holding in check the south Koreans' patriotic struggle for independence, democracy and reunification in order to fulfil its mission for aggression.
    Viewing the south Koreans' just and patriotic advance as a move to undermine its base for its presence, the command worked hard to put a firm hold on the south Korean regime and stepped up the fascistization of the south Korean society and directly involved itself in ruthlessly suppressing the south Koreans' struggle at the point of bayonet. A typical example of it was the massacre in Kwangju.
    The dismantlement of the command and the withdrawal of the U.S. troops from south Korea are urgently required for the country's reunification and global peace and security.
    Calculating that Korean reunification would make it impossible for the U.S. to realize its ambition to dominate the whole of Korea and other parts of Asia it has become all the more desperate in its moves for a war against reunification through the command. The West Sea skirmish in June last year was a product of such plot. It also forced the south Korean authorities to get approvals of the command on all the issues raised in the inter-Korean relations and worked hard to prevent the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration from being implemented putting every possible brake on the process of improving the relations between the north and the south.
    The U.S. would be well advised to face up to the trend of the times, immediately stop the anti-DPRK campaign and roll back its criminal hostile policy toward the DPRK, dismantle the south Korea-U.S. "combined command" and pull the U.S. forces out of south Korea without delay so that the Koreans may achieve reconciliation, cooperation and reunification by themselves.