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Transfer of "Right to Command Wartime Operations" Termed Charade

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

   Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- The U.S. and the south Korean military were reported to have agreed on the issue of transfer of the "right to command wartime operations" to south Korea, but that is quite meaningless so long as the U.S. military presence and domination over south Korea and its moves for a war of aggression go on. A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland said this in a statement released on Mar. 8 in connection with the fact that the U.S. secretary of Defense and the south Korean minister of Defence at their recent talks held in Washington agreed to transfer the above-said right to south Korea till April of 2012, that is five years later and officially announced it.
    Citing facts to prove the U.S. continued military presence and domination over south Korea and its ceaseless moves for war of aggression, the statement said:
    This indicates that the U.S. loudmouthed transfer of the above-mentioned right to south Korea is nothing but hypocrisy and there will be, practically, no change in the present master-and-servant military relations between the U.S. and south Korea and on the contrary it will only reinforce the U.S. military presence and domination over south Korea.
    Lurking behind this charade is a sinister aim to instigate the south Korean bellicose forces to launch a war of aggression against the north and evade the responsibility for the provocation of the war by painting it as a "fratricidal war."
    All these facts go to prove that the U.S. much publicized "transfer of right to command wartime operations" is nothing but a deceptive farce to mislead the domestic and foreign mind-set and opinion and a product of the dangerous plot to escalate its moves for war.
    The U.S. would be well advised not to mislead the public opinion through the above-said charade, but take its hands off the Korean Peninsula and quit south Korea, taking all its equipment for war of aggression with it as early as possible.
    The south Korean authorities should give up the farce of "take-over of the right to command wartime operations" and take practical measures to put an end to the U.S. domination and interference and withdraw the U.S. troops from south Korea.