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National Reunification Institute Issues White Paper

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- The National Reunification Institute made public a white paper Saturday to lay bare the deceptive nature of the U.S. cutdown of imperialist aggression troops in south Korea and bring their aggressive nature home to the people at home and abroad. The U.S. has staged several farces of troop cutdown since its military occupation of south Korea on September 8, 1945. But history has never seen any drastic reduction of the U.S. imperialist aggression troops in south Korea. On the contrary, the U.S. have bolstered its troops of aggression and escalated its war moves and brought dark clouds of a nuclear war to hang over the Korean peninsula, the paper said, and went on:
    The first round of the U.S. arms reduction between 1948 and 1949 left its imperialist aggression troops in south Korea in the name of the "U.S. military advisory group" and all the military equipment of the U.S. forces was handed over to south Korea.
    The U.S. offered 2,627.61 million U.S. dollar worth military aid to south Korea between 1948 and 1950. In less than one year after the U.S. staged the farce to withdraw its troops from south Korea the U.S. instigated the south Korean military to start the war of aggression against the DPRK. The U.S. committed at least 360,000-strong troops more than five times as many as the already withdrawn troops and huge amount of latest type weapons and equipment of all kinds to south Korea under the pretext of fighting a war.
    It set the stage for the second round of reduction between 1954 and 1958.
    But the U.S. 8th Army Command was replaced by the U.S. 8th Army Forward Command and the U.S. 5th Air Force Command by the U.S. 5th Air Force Forward Command. The U.S. 8th Army Command, which had been withdrawn to Japan and merged with the U.S. Command in Far East, was brought back to south Korea only six months later along with the UN Command.
    A particular note should be taken of the fact that the U.S. has introduced nuclear weapons into south Korea under the pretext of "arms reduction" and buckled down to the work to put into practice its plan to convert south Korea into a nuclear advance base.
    It has shipped nuclear missiles, nuclear artillery pieces and backpack nuke and other nuclear weapons and units for fighting a nuclear war into south Korea under the pretext of withdrawing GIs that had served during the Korean war.
    During the third round of cutdown between 1970 and 1971 the U.S. deployed nearly 700 nuclear weapons and their delivery means in south Korea under the pretext of making up for the gap and worked out a new scenario for a nuclear war of aggression against the DPRK.
    The third round resulted in reducing south Korea to a nuclear base and increasing the danger of a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula.
    Between 1977 and 1978 the U.S. staged the fourth round of arms reduction but by the end of the 1970s it scrapped the withdrawal plan itself and conducted Team Spirit and RSOI joint military exercises with south Korea, thus leaving the Korean nation vulnerable to the catastrophic nuclear holocaust.
    In the 1990s the issue of withdrawing the U.S. imperialist aggression troops from south Korea became controversial at home and abroad and this issue was even brought to U.S. Congress. The fifth round of cutdown was conducted between 1990 and 1992 against this backdrop, but it has been completely shelved under the pretext of the "nuclear issue of the north".
    Particularly, the U.S. has taken the issue with DPRK over its "nuclear issue" from around 1993 to find a pretext for a war of aggression against the north and its arms buildup and thus sparked off the worst nuclear crisis on the peninsula.
    This has created a touch-and-go situation on the Korean peninsula.
    The recent farce orchestrated by the Bush administration to cut down its troops in south Korea assumes more dangerous nature than the previous in aggressive and rash nature.
    The arms cut farce of the Bush administration is a product of an extremely dangerous plot to escalate its aggression and war moves worldwide and realize its strategy to dominate the world.
    The recent measures taken by the U.S. to cut down and reorganize its troops in south Korea do not mean that it downplays the strategic position of south Korea. Instead, they were taken to improve their strategic position and grant more comprehensive mission of aggression to the U.S. troops in south Korea and they are nothing but a sort of strategic and tactical redeployment for a new scenario for a war of aggression and a modern war.
    The U.S. is now planning to massively ship latest weapons into south Korea behind the curtain of "cutdown" as it did in the past.
    The Bush administration announced it would ship into south Korea a large amount of latest war hardware worth 13 billion dollars for three or four years to come under the pretext of filling the "military vacuum" caused by "cutdown" and "redeployment."
    The U.S. gave military aid worth 10,483,710,000 dollars to south Korea for over 40 years till 1986.
    The U.S. is conducting exercises of promptly committing striking brigades and missile units based in the mainland to south Korea or shipping them into it.
    And it is also working hard to deploy in south Korea special weapons of new type which were tested in the Iraqi war or are being developed.
    Its plan for a war against the DPRK is being revised and completed in accordance with its new military strategy and "cutdown", "relocation" and "redeployment" of its troops.
    The aggressive nature of the Bush administration was brought into bolder relief in the "10-30-30" operation plan made public by the U.S. Department of Defense in April this year.
    As regards such strategy for a war of aggression, the U.S. is pushing ahead with a plan to establish a U.S. command in Northeast Asia by integrating its imperialist aggression forces in south Korea and its troops in Japan for the future.
    Finally, the U.S. intends to turn south Korea into not only a base for a war against the DPRK but a base for launching a war of aggression worldwide, thus making the Korean peninsula a dilapidated land for a global war.
    The paper demanded the U.S. withdraw its troops and equipment from south Korea in a comprehensive and irreversible manner and refrain from fooling and deceiving public opinion at home and abroad and resorting to its aggression and war moves, while doing magic tricks of "cutdown" and "redeployment" of its imperialist aggression troops in south Korea.