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U.S. Move to Vandalize Cultural Treasure of Korean Nation Assailed

KCNA

    Pyongyang, January 29 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary denounces the United States for pressurizing the south Korean authorities to offer the site of the Toksu Palace for the construction of its embassy building and flats for the staff members from the beginning of the year as it did last year. The commentary says:
    This is an act of aggression trampling upon and insulting the history of the Korean nation and a crime making a mockery of its dignity.
    It is the consistent policy of the U.S. to obliterate the time-honored and excellent history and the national character of Korea.
    The U.S. imperialists' acts of destroying the cultural assets of Korea, that started with the exhumation of Prince Namyon's tomb in April 1868, have been going on century after century. This is motivated by their scheme to throttle the Korean nation.
    The U.S. imperialists have wantonly destroyed and taken away fine cultural remains and relics associated with the history of the Korean nation from the very day of their occupation of south Korea. And, during the Korean war, they destroyed a great number of cultural relics by brutal bombardment, gun firing and incendiarism and looted cultural assets valued at national treasures.
    What arouses deeper anger of the Korean nation is that the south Korean authorities are yielding to the U.S. pressure, revealing their submissive attitude. The south Korean authorities do not hesitate to commit anti-national criminal acts, utterly indifferent to the dignity and interests of the nation, blindly bowing to U.S. demands. It is intolerable to see that such acts leave the history of the Korean nation trampled underfoot and its dignity impaired.
    All the fellow countrymen loving the motherland and the nation should unite and wage a daring struggle against the U.S. imperialists' acts of destroying national cultural relics and the south Korean authorities' treacheries in giving in to it and for defence of the cultural treasures of the nation.