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Withdrawal of U.S. Troops from S. Korea Guarantees Nation's Dignity and True Life

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

    Pyongyang, October 20 (KCNA) -- Independence of the Korean nation with a time-honored history, culture and wisdom has been infringed upon for a long period due to the occupation of south Korea by U.S. imperialist aggressor troops for over 60 years, notes Rodong Sinmun in an article Friday. Saying it is national disgrace that can be tolerated no longer, the author of the article says:
    The withdrawal of the U.S. troops from south Korea is a prerequisite to the independence of the south Korean society.
    The independence of the south Korean society is a desire of the century related to the dignity and destiny of the whole nation, not to speak of the south Korean people. The dignity and true life of the nation can be brought into bloom only in a land of national independence.
    The south Korean people have suffered from all sorts of misfortune and disgrace with the national dignity and sovereignty violated by imperialist aggressor forces for more than a century owing to the 60-odd-year long military occupation and rule of the U.S. imperialists following the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule. This is the worst tragedy in the history of the Korean nation.
    The withdrawal of the U.S. troops from south Korea is the most urgent requisite to peace of Korea and the cause of its reunification.
    The U.S. is advertising its troops present in south Korea as an "apostle of peace" and "war deterrent." But this is a sheer lie. The U.S. troops are the root cause of a war on the Korean Peninsula and a cancer-like entity in the matter of reunification. The U.S. imperialist aggressor troops in south Korea perpetrated repeatedly such mean acts as lowering the check-bar to inter-Korean economic cooperation based on the June 15 joint declaration under unreasonable pretexts. Moreover, they have desperately spoiled the atmosphere of inter-Korean reconciliation and reunification by staging provocative war drills against the DPRK.
    The history and reality prove that peace in the country and its reunification can never be achieved unless the U.S. imperialist aggressor troops are driven out of south Korea. All the fellow countrymen in the north, the south and abroad should further intensify the nation-wide struggle to put an end to the U.S. imperialist aggressor troops' occupation of south Korea at an early date and thus write finis to the history of misfortune and disgrace resulting from the presence of the aggressor troops in this land.