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| Wednesday, 28 July 2004 |
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N. Korea writes UN's Annan, demands US troop pullout SEOUL, Tuesday (Reuters) North Korea urged the United Nations on Tuesday to dissolve the U.N. Command on the tense peninsula and press for the withdrawal of U.S. troops based in South Korea. In a rare letter to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, North Korea's representative at the Korean War truce village called on the United Nations to dissolve the 50-year-old U.N. Command. "It is our view that a war in Korea is almost unavoidable as long as the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK goes on," said the 1,100-word letter, which the official KCNA news agency said was written by Colonel-General Ri Chan-bok. DPRK stands for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It was not immediately clear whether Annan received Li's letter, which was dated July 22 and published on Tuesday, the 51st anniversary of the armistice which stopped fighting in the Korean War. The U.S. military in Seoul had no immediate comment. Ri's letter reiterated North Korean war threats and demands for a U.S. pullout and voiced alarm at recent American moves to upgrade military readiness while cutting forces. The United States announced last month that it planned to withdraw a third of its 37,500 troops from South Korea as part of a long-term global force realignment. It also plans to move forward deployed troops away from the border with the North. |
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