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All Koreans Called upon to Struggle for Withdrawal of U.S. Forces from South Korea

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

   Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- The Koreans should no longer allow the U.S. imperialists to stay in south Korea as they are advancing under the banner of "By our nation itself" in the era of independent reunification, observes Rodong Sinmun Saturday in a signed article carried in connection with the fact that the U.S. has become all the more undisguised in its moves to keep its aggressor forces in south Korea. The article goes on:
    The U.S. moves to perpetuate the presence of its aggressor forces in south Korea are aimed at keeping the Korean nation divided into two forever and, furthermore, realizing its ambition to dominate the whole of Korea.
    The publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and the advance of the era of independent reunification reflect the desire of all the fellow countrymen for independence to put an end to the U.S. forces' presence in south Korea and their infringement upon the national sovereignty.
    All the Koreans in the north and the south and abroad are valiantly turning out in the struggle to get the U.S. forces withdrawn from south Korea. This clearly shows what is the trend in the era of independent reunification.
    The publication of the June 15 joint declaration turned the inter-Korean relations into those of reconciliation and cooperation from those of confrontation and distrust and threw all the leftovers of the past era of confrontation into a dustbin of history. The U.S. forces' presence in south Korea, a typical leftover of the era of the Cold War and confrontation, should be eradicated, first of all, as they are a cancer-like entity standing in the way of the inter-Korean reconciliation and cooperation.
    There is no justification for the U.S. forces to remain in south Korea any longer as they are inciting distrust and confrontation between the north and the south and obstructing the reunification of the country in the June 15 era of reunification when national cooperation and unity are growing strong between the north and the south and all the Koreans are aspiring after the peace and reunification of the Korean Peninsula.
    Inter-Korean reconciliation and cooperation can never make any progress unless the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces are withdrawn from south Korea. This is a lesson taught by the present era of independent reunification.
    The U.S. forces present in south Korea staged large-scale joint military exercises together with the south Korean war-like forces whenever inter-Korean reconciliation and cooperation made new progress, thus poisoning the atmosphere of reconciliation and inciting inter-Korean confrontation.
    There is neither justification nor pretext whatsoever for the U.S. to keep its aggressor forces in south Korea any longer now that the south Korean people are waging a dynamic struggle for the pullback of the U.S. forces from south Korea.
    The U.S. would be well advised to clearly understand the need of the era and face up to the trend of the times, withdraw its forces from south Korea at an early date and refrain from doing anything obstructive to Korea's reunification.