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End to U.S. Military Presence in S. Korea Urged

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

   Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- The United States should renounce its policy of military presence in south Korea and pull back its aggression troops from it as desired by the Korean nation whose will is to see foreign forces for aggression pulled back from south Korea, regain the national dignity and sovereignty and achieve the historic cause of national reunification, says Rodong Sinmun in a signed article Tuesday 60 years since the U.S. military occupation of south Korea. The article goes on:
    The U.S. military occupation of south Korea was tantamount to brigandish aggression as it was illegally perpetrated against the independent will of the Korean nation and in defiance of its legitimate right. It was, at the same time, an intolerable crime as it has inflicted the misfortune and pain resulting from the national division upon the Korean nation and blocked the country's reunification.
    The U.S. hurled its forces into south Korea on Sept. 8, 1945 under the pretext of "disarming the Japanese troops." It should have had totally withdrawn its forces in the subsequent days when the disarmament of the Japanese imperialists came to an end and the former Soviet Union was pulling its forces out of the DPRK. But the U.S. took the Japanese imperialists' defeat as a golden opportunity of realizing its ambition for the invasion of Korea and occupied south Korea by force as it pleased. The occupation of south Korea by the U.S. forces was an illegal act as it was in contravention of the Cairo and Potsdam Declarations that called for independence and sovereignty of Korea, the Korean Armistice Agreement and even the UN resolution. The U.S. forces' presence in south Korea had lost any justification long ago as the Cold War came to an end and the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
    The U.S. forces' occupation of south Korea was, at the same time, a crime against humanity as it artificially divided the homogenous nation rare to be found in the world, bringing unspeakable misfortune and disaster to it. This occupation has desperately hampered the Korean nation's movement for reunification by fostering north-south confrontation.
    The U.S. military presence in south Korea has been a major factor of driving the situation in Korea to constant tension and threatening the destiny of the nation. The U.S. forces have been a main source of a war on the Korean Peninsula. The U.S. provoked the war of aggression in the 1950s and has frantically kicked up such dangerous war rackets targeted against the north as the "Pueblo" incident, the "EC-121" plane incident, the Panmunjom incident and Team Spirit and Ulji Focus Lens joint military exercises in a bid to push the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war.
    The past six-decade long history of the U.S. forces' occupation of south Korea is woven with crimes against the Korean nation. No occupation forces in the world have trifled the destiny of a country and a nation and so cruelly and ruthlessly inflicted misfortune and pain upon its people as the U.S. forces present in south Korea have done. Terming the U.S. forces' presence in south Korea an anachronistic leftover of the old era, the article urges the U.S. to pull back its forces from south Korea as early as possible, shake off the ill fame as the architect of Korea's division and a disturber of peace and reunification on the Korean Peninsula and thus escape the catastrophic disaster to be entailed by its continued presence in south Korea and its moves to invade the DPRK.