Struggle against U.S. troops declared
KCNA
Pyongyang, March 16 (KCNA) -- The headquarters of the Movement for Returning the U.S. Military Base in Ryongsan reportedly held a press conference before the front gate of the U.S. eighth army command in Ryongsan on March 11 at which it declared that it would struggle against the U.S. troops.
The U.S. eighth army in Ryongsan said that it would transfer to other place but it started to build luxury apartment houses within the base from the end of last year and is now building highways squandering at least 12.9 billion won tax collected from the South Korean people.
At the press conference Kim Chong Il, co-executive chairman of the organization, charged that when reporters at the ground-breaking ceremony on Feb. 6 asked why the U.S. troops intend to build highways that will not be used after some years, a general of the U.S. troops took an arrogant attitude, saying that they are bound to live there in comfort.
The participants in the press conference vowed to wage a vigorous struggle for the return of the U.S. military base by their concerted efforts.
The organization said that with the press conference as an occasion it would raise such demands as halt to the construction of highways linking to the U.S. military base in Ryongsan and apartment houses, opposition to the burden of the South Korean side for the cost of transfer of the military base and land for its replacement, total return of the military base in Ryongsan and total revision of the joint land management plan and continue a rally till March 29.
