Withdrawal of nuclear weapons from S. Korea
demanded
Pyongyang, January 29 (KCNA) -- The U.S.
should immediately withdraw nuclear weapons from South Korea, demand papers here
today in signed commentaries carried 45 years after it began shipping them into
it. South Korea has turned into the biggest nuclear arsenal in the Far East and
a nuclear attack base as over 1,000 U.S.-made nukes are deployed there. Rodong
Sinmun says that the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula surfaced because of
the U.S. shipment of nukes into South Korea that started after the U.S. had a
huddle with the South Korean authorities on February 12, 1957 over the issue of
equipping the U.S. Forces in South Korea with nuclear weapons and declared in
July of the same year that they would commence nuclear weaponization. The daily
goes on: The U.S. imperialists have gone ahead with the establishment of the
"joint stealth operation force" for carrying out a preemptive nuclear attack
operation and the development of new-type tactical nuclear weapons to be used in
the second Korean war since they singled out the DPRK as part of an "axis of
evil" and target of its preemptive nuclear attack. Those facts go to prove that
the U.S. is chiefly to blame for the nuclear crisis and the nuclear threat on
the Korean Peninsula is not coming from the north but is posed by the U.S.
Forces in South Korea. The U.S. is the biggest criminal as it seeks to bring a
holocaust of a nuclear war to all the Koreans after turning South Korea, an
inalienable part of Korea, into a nuclear arsenal. We should not allow our
sacred land to be reduced to shambles of U.S. nuclear war and the Korean nation
to fall victim to the war. Minju Joson says that it is an issue vital to the
Korean nation and an urgent need of the times to force the U.S. imperialist
aggressor troops armed with nuclear weapons and other latest type military
hardware to pull out of South Korea and ensure peace and security on the Korean
Peninsula.
