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Withdrawal of Decision on Additional Troop Dispatch to Iraq Demanded

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 25 (KCNA) -- The south Korean authorities should cogitate about the grave consequences to be entailed by their traitorous decision on additional troop dispatch to Iraq and unconditionally withdraw the improper anti-national decision, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary. The commentary dismisses the decision as a despicable sycophantic and traitorous action little short of selling out the sovereignty and the interests of the country and the nation to meet the interests of foreign aggressors, yielding to them, bereft of any elementary political independence and national dignity.
    It continues:
    The theory of "state interests" is sycophantic and traitorous logic calling for depending on outsiders as it is nothing but sophism to justify the decision on the additional troop dispatch.
    South Korea's dispatch of troops to Iraq would bring it nothing good but cause only casualties and losses. Through this south Korea seeks to please the U.S. by joining in its moves of aggression and occupation to help it meet its greedy interests.
    This is a revelation of the way of thinking depending on outsiders peculiar to south Korea bereft of national identity.
    The hypocrisy of the authorities' talk about the "state interests" is clearly proved by the fact that they are trying to justify the decision with the veil of "world peace" and link it to the "peaceful settlement" of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S.
    It is preposterous for south Korea to talk about peace while supporting and joining in the shameful war of aggression opposed by the world and rejected even by the UN. It is foolhardy for them to link the troop dispatch to the "peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue". It is illogical to support and join in the war of aggression launched by the outsiders to prevent a war to be launched by outsiders. The troop dispatch to Iraq would neither help ensure peace on the Korean peninsula nor protect the well-being of the nation. On the contrary, it would encourage the U.S. in its hostile policy toward the DPRK and its moves to provoke a war against the country. The south Korean authorities should clearly understand that their dispatch of more troops to Iraq to support the outsiders in their acts of aggression will be a thrice-cursed traitorous act of fanning the U.S. war hysteria and its brigandish unilateralism and bringing a war to the Korean peninsula. If south Korea finally and additionally sends troops to Iraq it would be little short of repeating the disgraceful history in the past when it dispatched troops to Vietnam and adding to the crimes it committed against history and the nation in the past.