Total abolition of SOFA called for
KCNA
Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) issued a statement on Feb. 8, demanding total abolition of the unequal South Korea-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), said Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation.
The humiliating SOFA came into effect on February 9, 36 years ago, he said, and went on:
The SOFA provides the U.S. imperialist aggression troops with extraterritorial rights and patronizes the hair-raising criminal acts of Yankee murderers. It has been strongly protested and denounced by all the people since its fabrication as it is a "modern version of a document of slaves" that ruthlessly violates the dignity of our people and the sovereignty of the nation.
Due to the SOFA our people are deprived of bloody tax worth 3 billion dollars as the upkeep of the U.S. Forces every year and South Korea has no jurisdiction over the GIs' murder, rape, robbery, assault and other crimes.
As long as the U.S. Forces remain in South Korea and such submissive and unequal laws as SOFA exist there, the people cannot live in peace even a moment. This is a lesson taught by the colonial history spanning nearly 60 years.
The NDFSK will, together with all the people who want to live in the world free from Yankees, certainly drive the U.S. Forces out of this land through a nationwide anti-U.S. struggle under the uplifted banner of national independence.
