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Nationwide Struggle against U.S. Military Presence in S. Korea

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, October 1 (KCNA) -- Let's make 2005 the year of the U.S. troops' withdrawal from south Korea! The slogan came from the joint appeal sent to the south Korean people by organizations of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea 59 years after the U.S. forces occupied south Korea.
    The south Korean occupation by the U.S. imperialist aggression forces is a disgrace and tragedy unprecedented in the Korean nation's history spanning 5,000 years.
    In the first five years of their occupation, the U.S. forces killed more than a million people in south Korea. During the three-year Korean war, they dropped some 564,400 tons of bombs, devastating all areas of the DPRK.
    More than 270,000 cases of GI crimes have been reported in south Korea until 1999 from the August 15 liberation of the country.
    The danger of war has persisted on the Korean peninsula due to the U.S. imperialists' ceaseless war preparations against the DPRK.
    The struggle for the U.S. forces' withdrawal from south Korea has been invigorated in the north and south of Korea and overseas.
    Sin Yong Song, vice-minister of Electricity and Coal Industries, told KCNA that the joint appeal fully mirrors the unanimous desire and patriotic will of all the fellow countrymen.
    The north, south and overseas headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification, too, issued a joint appeal calling upon the 70 million fellow countrymen at home and abroad to turn out in the nationwide struggle for driving the U.S. troops out of south Korea.
    In south Korea the Kwangju-South Jolla Provincial Federation of University Student Councils held a rally to declare a struggle for the U.S. forces' withdrawal from south Korea and the National Democratic Front, the Federation of University Student Councils, the Solidarity for the Implementation of the South-North Joint Declaration and other organizations have conducted various activities to this end.
    Koreans in Japan, China, Russia and other regions and countries have manifested their willingness to join in the nationwide struggle against the U.S. military presence in south Korea.
    The International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea in an appeal called upon all the peaceloving and progressive anti-U.S. forces in the world to fight in unity to force the U.S. to withdraw all its troops and military equipment from south Korea.