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Malarkey of S. Korean Defence Minister Assailed

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

   Pyongyang, December 25 (KCNA) -- Some days ago, the south Korean defence minister expressed "thanks," talking nonsense that the U.S. troops in south Korea are a "symbol of the south Korea-U.S. alliance" and the presence of the U.S. Second Division in south Korea is "great fortune" for south Korea in the wake of his reckless remarks that the "military threat from the north remains unchanged." A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland in his answer given to the question put by KCNA on Dec. 24 in this regard vehemently denounced the reckless remarks made by the south Korean military chief.
    He termed these outbursts treacherous acts intended to deter the north-south relation from developing favorably under the banner of the June 15 joint declaration and stem the trend of the times towards national reconciliation, unity and reunification and an unpardonable provocation against the north. The military threat on the Korean Peninsula is not coming from the north but from south Korea where the U.S. troops are stationed, the spokesman said, and went on:
    Prevailing on the Korean Peninsula are constant tension and a touch-and-go situation in which a war may break out any moment owing to the reckless war moves of the U.S. and the south Korean authorities, its servants, and this is laying a serious obstacle to the development of the inter-Korean relations. Master-servant military relations between the U.S. and south Korea are the source of a war and the root cause of blocking the process to warm up the inter-Korean relations and the peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue.
    As long as the U.S. troops are present in south Korea it is impossible to ease the military tension and achieve peace on the Korean Peninsula and there will no military guarantee for the improvement of the inter-Korean relations.
    Moreover, the disgusting remark made by the south Korean military chief that the presence of the U.S. imperialist aggression forces in south Korea is "fortune" despite the fact that they have brought all sorts of misfortune and pain to the Koreans is an intolerable insult and mockery of the Korean nation. The south Korean authorities should clearly know that the malarkey let loose by the military chief is nothing helpful to the implementation of the agreement for relaxing the military tension and ensuring peace on the Korean Peninsula adopted at the north-south ministerial talks, to say nothing of the inter-Korean relations.
    They should apologize for his reckless remarks and give the north assurances that such a disturbing thing would not occur again.