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Reduction of U.S. Forces in S. Korea Dismissed as Hypocritical

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, October 18 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialists' loudmouthed reduction of their forces in south Korea is nothing but hypocrisy as it is, in fact, an arms buildup and a curtain raiser to a new war on the Korean peninsula. Rodong Sinmun Monday says this in a signed commentary. It goes on:
    Throughout the 59-year-long history of its military presence in south Korea, the United States has staged a number of farces of reducing its forces but each time such farce ended up bolstering its forces and rounding off its war scenario for a war of aggression against the DPRK.
    Behind the scene of the cutback of its forces, the U.S. has massively introduced different types of nuclear weapons and ultra-modern war equipment into south Korea and its vicinity and staged frequent war exercises, rounding off its preparations for preemptive attack on the DPRK.
    In June, the United States informed the south Korean authorities it would reduce one third of its forces in south Korea by the end of the next year.
    But on October 6, it officially notified them that the cutback of its forces would be put on hold for three years.
    It is the real intention of the U.S. to step up its moves to bolster up its forces and start a new war behind the curtain of reduction.
    What should not be overlooked are the south Korean authorities' attitude and stand on the issue of the U.S. forces' cutback. As soon as the U.S. informed them of this reduction plan, they begged it to delay the "cutback" over one year at least, raising a hue and cry over "serious security vacuum" on the Korean peninsula.
    The south Korean people who have been insulted and despised by the U.S. imperialist aggression forces for more than half a century should clearly see through the deceptive nature of the U.S. forces' reduction, heighten their vigilance against it and turn out as one in a patriotic struggle to make 2005 the year of forcing the U.S. troops to withdraw from south Korea.