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Withdrawal of U.S. Forces Urged

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, January 19 (KCNA) -- The withdrawal of the U.S. forces is a prerequisite to the progress of south Korean society and the worthy life of the south Korean people and no progressive reform can bear a true fruit without it, declares Rodong Sinmun in an article Wednesday. The author of the article says:
    The U.S. military occupation and domination over south Korea is the most outdated one in south Korea. It is the fetters arresting the socio-political development of south Korea and the root cause of all the misfortunes and sufferings of the people there.
    The south Korean people should drive the U.S. forces out of south Korea and put an end to the U.S. colonial rule, if they truly want to break with what is old and go toward what is new.
    With the U.S. forces present in south Korea, the desire of the people there for independence cannot be achieved. Even though it is achieved temporarily, it may be lost overnight.
    With the U.S. forces left in south Korea, the people cannot shake themselves free from the colonial yoke and shackles of humiliation any time nor can get rid of misfortunes and sufferings. If south Korea remains under the U.S. forces' occupation, the people there cannot evade the holocaust of a nuclear war, not to speak of independence and democracy of south Korean society.
    Today the idea of national independence "By our nation itself" has become the spirit and trend of the times on the Korean Peninsula. It is a crying national shame and tragedy that the U.S. occupation of and rule over south Korea, the outdated leftover of the last century, still continue against the flow of the times and the desire of the nation.