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Decision to Additionally Dispatch Troops to Iraq Assailed

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League in a statement today branded south Korea's decision to additionally dispatch troops to Iraq as a pro-U.S. submissive act of leaving young south Koreans to the tender mercy of the U.S. imperialist aggression forces as their bullet shields to please the U.S., utterly indifferent to the nation's dignity and interests, and an unpardonable crime against it. On Oct.18 the south Korean authorities at the socalled meeting of the "national security council" formally decided to additionally dispatch troops to Iraq and present a motion calling for the troop dispatch to the "National Assembly".
    Recalling that the south Korean authorities openly perpetrated the traitorous act of deciding to dispatch troops to Iraq, yielding to the U.S. pressure for the additional troop dispatch in the wake of their troop dispatch to Iraq in April last, caving in to the pressure of the U.S. and the pro-U.S. right-wing conservatives, the spokesman continued:
    The U.S., which launched the war of aggression in Iraq, is reluctant to send its troops to its battlefields. Yet, the south Korean authorities are hurling fellow countrymen there even spending the money collected from the south Korean people as taxes. We bitterly denounce such act as a pro-U.S. submissive act, flunkeyist treachery.
    The south Korean authorities should ponder over the consequences to be entailed by such criminal additional dispatch of troops to Iraq and unconditionally revoke the wrong anti-national "decision".
    There is no reason for the young south Koreans to shed blood and meet tragic deaths in the far-off alien country for the sake of the U.S. imperialist aggressors.
    The south Korean youth and students should not be taken in by the deceptive trick of the U.S. imperialists and their followers but valiantly come out in the struggle against the anti-national troop dispatch.
    We ardently call upon the youth and students, all parties and groupings and people from all walks of life in south Korea to resolutely oppose and reject the additional troop dispatch doing harm to the dignity and interests of the nation and launch a dynamic mass movement to vote down all the "national assemblymen", who are going against the people's will and getting hell-bent on the additional troop dispatch, in the next year's "general election"