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U.S. Move to Build Its Embassy Premises in Historical Site under Fire

KCNA

    Pyongyang, January 27 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the History Society of the DPRK Monday issued a statement denouncing the ever-more undisguised pressure of the U.S. upon the south Korean authorities to offer the site of Toksu Palace in Seoul as a plottage for its embassy premises and their base pro-U.S. treacherous move to yield to it. The statement said:
    Toksu Palace in Seoul is one of the precious historical and cultural relics as it was built in the period of the rule of King Songjong of the Ri Dynasty and had been used as a royal palace several times.
    The U.S. plan to construct its embassy premises in the site of Toksu Palace is an act of aggression little short of the Japanese imperialists' setting up of their "government-general" in the heart of Seoul in the past.
    The U.S. should discontinue vandalizing cultural treasures of the Korean nation and withdraw from south Korea at once.
    The U.S. vandalization of national heritages of Korea, that started with the exhumation of Prince Namyon's tomb, is going beyond its tolerance limit. Today the south Korean historians and people are strongly protesting against the U.S. move to build its embassy premises in the site of Toksu Palace, denouncing it as a "wanton violation of the nation's sovereignty."
    Nevertheless, the south Korean authorities are hatching a plot to offer the site to the U.S., talking about the "alliance with the U.S." and "promise." They should stop the anti-national criminal act of allowing the U.S. imperialist aggressors to vandalize precious cultural relics of the nation.
    The statement expressed expectation that the south Korean historians and people from all walks of life would hold high the banner of our nation-first spirit and turn out as one in the patriotic struggle to firmly protect the national cultural treasures of Koreafrom the vandalism of the aggressors and the sycophantic traitorous forces subservient to them.