Koreans Called Upon to Reject U.S. Pressure for Troop Dispatch
KCNA
Pyongyang, November 20 (KCNA) -- Minju Joson today in a signed commentary accuses high-ranking officials of the U.S. Departments of State and Defense, the U.S. ambassador to south Korea and others of pressurizing south Korea to send combatants of a divisional scope to Iraq as early as possible.
It goes on:
They assert that south Korea's passive attitude towards the issue of troop dispatch to Iraq would make a crack in the U.S.-south Korea relations and adversely affect the security of south Korea.
This is nothing but a U.S. plot to plug south Korea into its Iraqi strategy and a sort of threat and blackmail against the latter.
The south Korean authorities announced a decision on troop dispatch some time ago, yielding to the persistent pressure for troop dispatch put by the U.S. administration and military through various channels.
South Korean people are conducting various forms of actions to disclose the U.S. unilateral arbitrary practices and the authorities' submission to it and demanding the withdrawal of the decision on troop dispatch.
The pressure put by the U.S. upon south Korea to send combatants to Iraq under the pretext of "alliance" is intended to use young south Koreans as its bullet shields in a bid to put Iraq under its permanent occupation.
It is necessary to foil the U.S. sinister plot to attain its aggressive purpose at the sacrifice of young south Koreans.
It is, in fact, shame on the nation that south Korea is behaving at the U.S. beck and call without maintaining its assertion and view.
The south Korean people can live in peace only when the unequal "agreement" and "treaty" concluded with the U.S. are ditched, the shackling "alliance" is abrogated and the U.S. troops are driven out of south Korea.
They can achieve this only through anti-U.S. resistance.
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