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KCNA Raps S. Korea's Decision to Additionally Dispatch Troops to Iraq

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 23 (KCNA) --The south Korean authorities on Oct. 18 formally decided to additionally send troops to Iraq at the meeting of the "National Security Council" and submit the motion calling for the troop dispatch to the "National Assembly". It is touching off towering indignation among the Koreans as it is a sycophantic treacherous act of yielding to the U.S. pressure and an anti-national criminal act of driving fellow countrymen to death.
    As already known, the U.S. unilateral demand for troop dispatch to Iraq has been strongly rebuffed not only by the Koreans but by the international community for its injustice.
    Many countries still remain displeased with the U.S. start of the Iraqi war in defiance of the worldwide protest against the war and in disregard of the United Nations.
    Moreover, they are disillusioned with and opposed to the behavior of the U.S. which has persisted in the self-justified arbitrary practices based on unilateralism in the post-war period.
    How many countries have taken such a reckless option to send their people as bullet-shields to Iraq where anti-U.S. resistance is raging, feeling "common responsibility" for the serious consequences of the war launched by the U.S.
    Voices protesting against this decision are mounting as the days go by in south Korea, too.
    People from all walks of life in their statements and declarations charged that the "decision to send troops as part of the aggressor troops is an act of deceiving the people and a criminal act to justify the killings" and that the "additional troop dispatch is aimed to justify the U.S. preemptive attack".
    Over 77 percent of those polled at 37 universities opposed the troop dispatch. At least 350 civic and public organizations staged demonstrations in various parts of Seoul on Oct. 21 in protest against the troop dispatch against the backdrop of mounting protests against the troop dispatch.
    Despite the situation at home and abroad the pro-U.S. treacherous forces are working hard to meet the U.S. brigandish demand for troop dispatch, asserting that the troop dispatch is in the "interests of the state", a mockery of the fellow countrymen. How can the nation tolerate this?
    Given the fact that Choe Pyong Ryol and other ultra right conservative forces of the Grand National Party have been clamorous for the additional troop dispatch to Iraq, it would be just a simple procedure to pass the motion through the "National Assembly" dominated by the GNP.
    The ultra right conservative forces of the GNP can never shirk their blame for having taken the lead in wresting the decision to additionally dispatch troops to Iraq under the pretexts of "division of public opinion" and the "interests of the state."
    The south Korean authorities should immediately withdraw the perfidious decision and apologize to the nation for it.