calendar>>April 17. 2010 Juch 99
US Scheme for Forces' Occupation in S. Korea Slashed
Pyongyang, April 17 (KCNA) -- Civic and public organizations of south Korea including the South Headquarters of the Pan-national Alliance for Korea's Reunification and the People for Achieving Peace and Reunification staged the 127th "action for independence, reunification and peace" in Seoul on April 13.

The organizations accused the U.S. of its recent undisguised moves to ignite a nuclear war against the DPRK, branding them as an action escalating military tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

They charged that the U.S. is seeking to realize the "strategic flexibility" of its forces in south Korea under the pretext of the "transfer of the right to command wartime operations" and have full command over the south Korean army at the time of a war against the DPRK.

The U.S. forces are building a new airstrip in Phyongthaek, Kyonggi Province with the taxes collected from south Koreans, the organizations deplored, terming their moves a scheme aimed at their permanent presence in south Korea.

In order to achieve peace on the Korean Peninsula and the independent reunification of the nation it is necessary to force the U.S. to withdraw its troops from south Korea as early as possible, they held.

Copyright (C) KOREA NEWS SERVICE(KNS) All Rights Reserved.