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DPRK delegate on principle of UN peace-keeping operation

KCNA

    Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- The UN peace-keeping operation should in any case be conducted on the principle of respect for sovereignty, non-interference in other's internal affairs and impartiality if war and conflict are to be averted and lasting peace and security are to be ensured which are the most urgent tasks common to all countries and nations, said a delegate of the DPRK at a meeting of the special committee on un peace-keeping operation held on March 4. Big powers have used the UN peace-keeping operation as a leverage to achieve their political purpose and this practice is going on even today, he said, and went on:
    "The UN command" in South Korea is the command of the U.S. Forces and the UN Force there is U.S. troops.
    The UN resolution adopted in 1975 calls for dismantling "the UN command" but none of its points has been implemented so far. This is a mockery of the UN resolution and an act of impairing the authority and credibility of the UN.
    There is neither reason nor ground for the U.S. troops to remain in South Korea and their withdrawal from South Korea has been raised as an urgent need and irresistible trend of the times. The U.S. should roll back its policy of military presence in South Korea.
    The U.S. spawned the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and is staging large-scale war exercises under the simulated conditions of a real war after massively beefing up its troops in the region.
    This is part of its premeditated military operation to strangle the DPRK through preemptive nuclear attacks and its escalation.
    No U.S. saber rattling can browbeat the Korean nation.
    As the nation loves peace more than anyone else, the Korean people do not allow any slightest compromise or concession in the struggle against the harassers of peace.
    The option is not a monopoly of the U.S. there is an option on the part of the DPRK, too.
    The U.S. should bear in mind that its forces may venture on a provocation and attack on the DPRK but they would not be able to go back alive in battles.
    The army and people of the DPRK will wipe out at a single blow the aggressors coming in attack to torpedo the peace and reunification movement on the Korean Peninsula and firmly defend its peace and national security, pursuant to the army-centered policy.