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Minju Joson Ridicules Press Conference on Iraqi Situation

KCNA

    Pyongyang, December 5 (KCNA) -- The fact-finding group made up of south Korean "national assemblymen" was reported to have called a press conference recently upon its return home from Iraq. At the conference it asserted that "the situation in Iraq was safer than anticipated" and "Iraqis were in the mood of welcoming south Koreans." In this regard Minju Joson today says in a signed commentary:
    On November 30, a few days after the press conference members of the south Korean "Omu Electrical Company" in Iraq were attacked by Iraqi resistance forces.
    The attack on the members of the south Korean electrical company was gainsaying what was stated by "national assemblymen" at the "press conference," the Iraqi people's bitterness towards south Korea is clearly evidenced by the fact that after the south Korean authorities' decision on the additional dispatch of combat forces to Iraq, a staff member of the south Korean "embassy" there was abducted by Iraqi resistance forces and it is deluged with threatening phone messages and letters.
    The account of the "press conference" held by the "National Assembly" fact-finding group of south Korea and the report presented by it are now rebuffed by public circles of south Korea for misrepresenting the reality in Iraq.
    Not only the south Koreans but the Iraqis are opposed to south Korea's additional troop dispatch to Iraq. This dispatch is an act of infringing upon the dignity and sovereignty of the south Korean people and offering young south Koreans as bullet-shields for the U.S. imperialists.