Rodong Sinmun Monday observes in a signed commentary in this regard:

No matter how desperately the U.S. may try to hype the importance of the existence of the ghostlike "UN Command" in a bid to justify the presence of its forces in south Korea and increase its influence in Northeast Asia, it can never cover up its injustice and illegality.

What the U.S. has done under the signboard of the "UN Command" is nothing but its increase of the threat to the peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and the danger of war there.

It is a strategic mistake and anachronistic daydream for the U.S. to work hard to realize its strategy for invading the DPRK and its wild ambition for dominating Asia by bolstering up its forces in south Korea, a leftover of the Cold War, and using them as a shock brigade.

No matter how noisily the U.S. bellicose forces may trumpet about the elimination of the "factor of conflict", "protection" and "effective mechanism" in an effort to justify the existence of the illegal "UN Command" no one will lend an ear to such spate of rhetoric.

There is no legal ground for the U.S. forces to stay in south Korea in the light of the resolution of the 30th UN General Assembly which calls for dissolving the "UN Command" and withdrawing all foreign troops from south Korea and other documents.

If the U.S. truly has a will to prevent war on the Korean Peninsula and ensure peace in Northeast Asia, it should disband as early as possible the "UN Command", which is recognized by none and has no justification to exist, and take a bold action to pull its forces out of south Korea.