U.S. Urged to Withdraw Troops From S.KoreaThe Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said on Wednesday if the United States truly wants peace and stability in the world, it should pull its troops out of South Korea.In an editorial entitled "Cold War Mentality and Action Will Bring U.S. to Nowhere," DPRK's state KCNA news agency said the withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Korea is a prerequisite to the reunification of the Korean Peninsula, and to the realization of peace and stability and sustained economic development in the Asia-Pacific region. However, the Hawkish group of President George W. Bush's administration is trying to derail the peace process and aggravate the situation on the Korean Peninsula in a bid to invent a new pretext for the permanent U.S. military occupation and domination over South Korea and trigger a war on the Peninsula, the editorial said. Taking the Korean Peninsula as a strategic vantage point in the Asia-pacific region, the U.S. have given eye-teeth here in order to expand the sphere of its political and military influence. It also criticized the Bush administration for implementing the National Missile Defense (NMD) system, saying it is intended to render other nations nuclear and missile deterrent defunct, realize the U.S. strategy for world supremacy, and bring huge profits to its munitions monopolies. The Bush administration's moves to establish NMD are aimed at restarting the cold war by sparking a new global arms race, KCNA said. It is needless to say that given the present stockpiling of nuclear and strategic weapons in the world, such moves of the U.S. will upset the world military strategic balance and stability and push other nations vitally interested in it to a large-scale arms race worldwide, it said. The demise of the cold war deprived the U.S. of any justification to designate nuclear weapons states as strategic enemies or objects posing "threat". So, it is citing the DPRK as a state posing "a threat" in a bid to sow seeds of distrust and dissension among nations and thus meet its strategic interests. The news agency said that the DPRK is not indebted to the U.S. nor is it a country that will yield to its arrogant demand based on "strength" and give up its sovereignty. The DPRK is ready for either war or dialogue, it stressed. |
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