Halt to S. Korea-U.S. war exercises demanded
KCNA
Pyongyang, March 27 (KCNA) -- 8 peace and religious organizations including the People Opening the Door of Peace and Reunification, the Council for National Reconciliation and Independent Reunification and the Korean Catholic Priests' Council for Justice reportedly held a rally in front of the U.S. 8th army command in Ryongsan on March 22 demanding a stop to South Korea-U.S. joint military exercises and the return of all U.S. military bases.
Dismissing the largest-ever joint military exercises now going on under the pretext of coping with "emergency" on the Korean Peninsula as an extension of Team Spirit war exercise and moves to provoke a war against the north under "Operation Plan 5027," the organizations strongly demanded a halt to the sabre-rattling.
Bitterly accusing the U.S. 8th army command of pressurizing the South Korean authorities in February to pay 12.9 billion won for the project of road construction and cover 50 percent of the expenses for building apartments in the U.S. embassy compound and other places, they urged the authorities never to yield to the pressure.
They stated that the authorities should lend an ear to the voices of citizens and urge the U.S. Forces side to return its bases.
