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Moves to Bolster "UN Command" Assailed

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

   Pyongyang, February 27 (KCNA) -- The "UN Command" in south Korea is a military mechanism of the U.S. imperialists for aggression which is laying obstacles to the reunification of Korea and peace on the Korean Peninsula, being an illegal entity abusing the name of the United Nations, declares Rodong Sinmun in a signed article Tuesday.
    It goes on:
    The United States intends to maintain and bolster the "UN Command" today when it is compelled to dissolve the U.S.-south Korea "Combined Forces Command" with the transfer of "the right to command wartime operations" to south Korea. This is aimed at permanently occupying south Korea, invading the DPRK and seizing military supremacy over northeast Asia.
    The "UN Command" is a dyed-in-the-wool U.S. command wearing the UN helmet in view of the course of its formation, financial burden and military system.
    Those who held the posts of commander of the U.S. forces during the Korean war admitted that the "UN Command" in south Korea is nothing but a U.S. tool of aggression knocked into shape by abusing the name of the United Nations when it was provoking the Korean war.
    In the past UN secretary generals and their spokespersons affirmed several times that the command is that of the U.S. forces having nothing to do with the United Nations. In March last year, too, the then UN secretary general made it clear once again through his spokesperson that the command is not a command of the UN forces but that of the U.S.-orchestrated forces.
    The U.S. is going to expand and reorganize the "UN Command," the byproduct of armistice mechanism which should have been dissolved long ago. This is an act of ignoring the demand of the Korean people and the world public and the UN resolution for dissolving it and withdrawing the aggression forces from south Korea.
    In order to justify the presence of the U.S. forces in south Korea and attain its aim of aggression in Korea, the U.S. has deceived the world public by labeling this aggressive military tool the "UN Command," the "U.S. Forces Command" in south Korea and the U.S.-south Korea "Combined Forces Command" as it thought necessary.
    It is utterly intolerable that the U.S. intends to maintain, expand and bolster the "UN Command" under the pretext of filling the "gap" after the transfer of the "right to command wartime operations."