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Total Withdrawal of U.S. Troops from S. Korea Demanded

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, July 21 (KCNA) -- If the DPRK-U.S. stand-off is to be terminated, the U.S. should drop its hostile policy toward the DPRK and what is essential for this is to pull its forces out of south Korea. Rodong Sinmun Wednesday says this in a signed article. It goes on: The U.S. partial "reduction" of its forces in south Korea is nothing but an attempt to take to other places some forces it feels unnecessary as a result of their modernization with ultra modern military hardware and the introduction of the mode of long-range naval and air strike. This is a revelation of a dangerous plot to round off their preparations for a war in Korea and bring the Korean people another war disaster.
    It is 59 years since the U.S. occupied south Korea. The U.S. protracted presence in south Korea and its ceaseless moves for a war against the DPRK drove the DPRK-U.S. confrontation to an extreme pitch of tension and sparked the present serious nuclear crisis.
    The DPRK-U.S. military confrontation can never be terminated and peace on the Korean peninsula is unthinkable as long as the U.S. troops whose main mission is to invade the north remain in south Korea.
    In the Cold War era the U.S. justified its policy of military occupation of south Korea with the assertion that it is necessary to cope with the "threat from the Soviet Union", but this is no longer workable now.
    If the U.S. has no intention to invade the DPRK, it will feel no need to keep its forces in south Korea any longer.
    The Bush regime once expressed its will to pull its troops out of south Korea any time the south Koreans oppose the U.S. forces' presence in south Korea. If this is true, the U.S. should opt for the total withdrawal of its forces from south Korea, not their partial "reduction." Even in the light of the six-party talks this would be very helpful to the progress of the talks as it would be a practical measure for the renouncement of the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK.
    The total pullback of the U.S. troops from south Korea would create an environment favorable for turning the region with the greatest danger of war in the world into a peace zone and guaranteeing the peace and security of Asia and, furthermore, the rest of the world. This would be in line with the U.S. interests, too.
    If the United States, ignoring this, unleashes a war of aggression against the DPRK, it will bring catastrophic consequences to the U.S., too.