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Humiliating SOFA under Fire

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

   Pyongyang, March 3 (KCNA) -- The south Korea-U.S. "Status of Forces Agreement"(SOFA) is nothing but a disgraceful document jointly produced by the aggressors and the traitors as it grants the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces in south Korea extraterritorial privilege in wanton violation of the dignity and sovereignty of the south Korean people. Rodong Sinmun Saturday notes this in a signed article carried four decades since the treaty formally took effect.
    There are a lot of agreements in the world, but no agreement gives the occupation forces, the aggressors, such unlimited extraterritorial privilege as the above-said SOFA does, the article deplores, and goes on:
    The U.S. imperialists concluded with the Syngman Rhee clique on July 12, 1950 the "Taejon agreement" stipulating the status and rights of the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces in south Korea. This agreement stipulated that the "criminal jurisdiction" over the crimes committed by the U.S. forces should not belong to the south Korean authorities but to the U.S.
    The U.S. imperialist aggressor troops in south Korea infringed upon south Korean people's lives and properties everywhere they went, triggering off bitter anti-American sentiment. Feeling very uneasy and upset at this development, the U.S. imperialists conspired with the "Yusin" military fascist clique to replace the "Taejon agreement" by the SOFA.
    "Criminal jurisdiction," "civil case trial and claim to reparation," "immigration control," "exemption of customs" and "use of facilities and land," etc. by the U.S. forces in south Korea stipulated by the SOFA are just part of the provisions in the agreement that prove the treacherous nature of this agreement.
    The aggressive and humiliating nature of the SOFA has been clearly testified to by what has happened over the last four decades.
    The number of the crimes committed by GIs in south Korea for four decades has not decreased but has steadily increased, the means and methods involved in perpetrating such crimes baffling human imagination.
    Even according to the official data released in south Korea, the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces have committed all sorts of crimes such as murder, violence and plunder over the last four decades since the conclusion of the SOFA or five or more cases on a daily average and nearly 2,000 cases on an annual average.
    The inviolable land of Korea is now being devastated and its beautiful natural and ecological environment seriously destroyed due to the U.S. imperialist aggressor troops' monstrous killings, destruction and war exercises targeted against the DPRK.
    All this is the catastrophic product of the SOFA. The south Korean people from all walks of life are called upon to turn out in brave popular actions for the repeal of the SOFA.