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KCNA Urges Withdrawal of U.S. Forces from S. Korea

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

   Pyongyang, February 15 (KCNA) -- To ensure peace on the Korean Peninsula including its denuclearization is not the issue to be settled by the efforts of one side.
    From this point of view, the U.S. forces' presence in south Korea poses an actual danger to ensuring the peace on the Korean Peninsula.
    From the outset of the year, the upper echelon of the U.S. has become more vocal in "supporting" the U.S. forces' permanent presence in south Korea. This is a development which cannot be overlooked from the viewpoint of ensuring peace on the peninsula.
    Some days ago, the commander of the U.S. forces in the Pacific said that "what is important is not the numerical strength of the U.S. forces in south Korea but their military deterrence," blustering that the U.S. forces would continue to remain in south Korea even after the transfer of the "right to command wartime operations" to the south Korean forces in April 2012. And the commander of the U.S. forces in south Korea uttered that "the U.S. forces positively support their permanent presence in south Korea."
    Such remarks cannot be construed otherwise than a revelation of a sinister attempt at aggression aimed at stifling the DPRK by force and a blatant challenge to the ardent desire of the Korean nation to usher in a new era of independent reunification, peace and prosperity by its concerted efforts.
    The U.S. forces in south Korea are the very source of tense situation and war in the peninsula and the rest of Northeast Asia and a stumbling block lying in the way of developing the inter-Korean relations.
    The nuclear issue was spawned on the Korean Peninsula due to the nuclear threat posed by the U.S. forces in south Korea.
    As long as the U.S. forces remain in south Korea, it is quite impossible to achieve detente and peace on the peninsula and provide a military guarantee for the development of the inter-Korean relations and prosperity common to the Korean nation.
    The U.S. is working hard to paint its forces in south Korea as what it called "deterrent force," "peace force," but this is sheer hypocrisy.
    The U.S. imperialist aggression forces in south Korea are putting spurs to their moves to provoke a new war on the basis of such reckless plans for preemptive nuclear attack upon the DPRK and war scenarios worked out to suit different circumstances as "OPLAN 5027-04" and "OPLAN 5030." According to the strategy for preemptive attack upon the DPRK, the U.S. military has massively shipped various type ultra-modern war hardware into south Korea to increase their attacking capability and maneuverability under the pretext of "strategic flexibility," while pushing ahead with the redeployment of its forces present in south Korea in the areas south of the River Han.
    The U.S. policy of aggression toward the DPRK, the U.S. imperialist aggression forces' presence in south Korea, the resultant provocative arms buildup and military exercises, etc. are the main factor of escalating military confrontation and tension and the increasing danger of war on the peninsula.
    If the U.S. truly wants peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, it had better make a bold decision to pull its forces out of south Korea at an early date as this is a touchstone showing its will for peace.