U.S. war moves denounced in S. Korea
KCNA
Pyongyang, February 23 (KCNA) -- More than 20 South Korean catholic organizations including the National Catholic Alliance for Justice and the Catholic Committee of Human Rights reportedly called a "press conference of Catholics to oppose the Iraqi war and condemn the threat to the peace on the Korean Peninsula" in Seoul on Feb. 14.
A statement released there termed the Iraqi war to be unilaterally spearheaded by the U.S. an unpardonable horrible massacre.
Noting that the U.S. is justifying its moves over "North Korea's nuclear issue" under the absurd pretext of deterrent force against North Korea but they are aimed, in fact, at mounting a preemptive attack on it, which may bring an irrevocable disaster to the Korean nation, the statement demanded the U.S. immediately stop bolstering the troops in and around the Korean Peninsula and opt for a peaceful settlement to the issue.
The statement also urged the "authorities to withdraw its plan to dispatch troops to the Iraqi war at once." It declared that they would strive for an end to the war and peace of the Korean Peninsula and humankind.
