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End to U.S. Hostile Policy towards DPRK Urged

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, August 18 (KCNA) -- An end should be put to the presence of the U.S. troops in south Korea and to the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK. Rodong Sinmun Thursday urges this in a signed article. The Koreans have undergone the tragedy of national division against their will for the last six decades since the end of the colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists because the U.S. adopted it as its policy to keep Korea divided after occupying south Korea by force of arms, the article notes.
    It cites concrete facts to prove that the U.S. has worked hard to perpetuate the division of Korea ever since the very day of its military occupation of south Korea and dampened the desire of the Koreans in the north and the south of Korea for reunification whenever it grew stronger in the postwar period.
    The article goes on:
    The U.S. has systematically escalated its moves for a war against the DPRK not only in the period of the Cold War but in the post-Cold War period. After their coming to power in the new century the new U.S. conservative forces designated the DPRK as "the principal enemy" and listed it as part of "an axis of evil" and a target of their preemptive nuclear attack and have since stepped up their preparations for a war of aggression against it. They have frantically pursued the policy to stifle the DPRK with nuclear weapons after scrapping the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework.
    The U.S.-stepped up development of new-type minor nukes capable of striking underground military facilities in the DPRK goes to prove that the U.S. warlike forces are set to provoke a nuclear war in Korea at any cost. The anti-DPRK nuclear racket desperately kicked up by the U.S. in recent years is nothing but an attempt to invent a pretext for launching a war against the former.
    What merits particular attention in the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK is that Washington laid bare its attempt to bring down the system in it. In the past century the U.S. regarded it as a policy towards the DPRK to perpetuate the division of Korea but now it adopted it as its Korea policy to "unify Korea by absorbing the north through the overthrow of its system" and is keen on its moves to stifle the DPRK. Neither peace and reunification of Korea nor peace and security in Northeast Asia and the rest of the world are thinkable as long as the U.S. troops stay in south Korea. The reunification of Korea precisely means the guarantee of durable peace and stability in Northeast Asia and will give impetus to the economic growth and prosperity in the region.
    The U.S. should stop hamstringing the will and efforts of the Koreans to hasten the reunification of the country through the three forms of cooperation -- cooperation for national independence, cooperation for peace against war and cooperation for reunification and patriotism -- under the banner of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and make a policy switchover to help them achieve the reunification of Korea. The article urges the U.S. to terminate its military presence in south Korea and roll back its hostile policy towards the DPRK as early as possible.