MOSCOW WITHDRAWAL OF U.S. TROOPS FROM ROK WOULD LEAD TO REUNIFICATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-267-3-42-6
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 24, 2009
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: August 19, 1976
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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(VLADIMIR KOROLEV COMMENTARY S ~..~ `A L
(TEXT) TN THE UNITED NATIONS A LARGE GROUP OF SOCIALIST
AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES HAVE PROPOSED TO INCLUDE IN THE AGENDA OF
THE COMING 3191 GENERAL ASSEMBLY AN ITEM ON MEASURES TO BRING
ABOUT AN EARLY SETTLEMENT IN KOREA. OUR OBSERVER VLADIMIR
KOROIEV COMMENTS:
THE TRAGEDY OF DIVISION PAS BEEN PART OF THE KOREAN PEOPLE'S
LIFE FOR OVER 30 YEARS NOW. THE (?CONSENSUS) OF OPINION IS
THAT THE CHIEF BLAME FOR THIS SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS GOES TO THE
PRESENCE OF 409000 AMER IC,P N TROOPS IN THE SOUTH OF THE PENN I1NSULA.
THE UNITED STATES HAS MADE SEVERAL STATEMENTS LATELY ON THE
POSSIBILITY OF THESE TROOPS BEING MOVED AGAINST THE KOREAN
PE^PLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC AND EVEN THEIR USING NUCLEAR r.RMS.
AS SHOULD HAVE BEEN EXPECTED, THIS HAS ENCOURAGED THE PUPPET
REGIME IN SEOUL TO COMMIT NEW PROVOCATIONS.
THE HEAD OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL OF THE KORE--".N PEOPLE'S
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, PAK SONG-CHOL, ADDRESSING THE NONc LIMED
SUMMIT CONFERENCE IN COLOMBO, GAVE P. DETAILED E'CCOUNT OF IMPERIALIST
CONSPIRACY IN KOREA AND OF THE NUCLEAR ARSENAL STOCKPILED BY
THE UNITED STATES IN THE SOUTH OF THE PENINSULA.
THE SITUATIOtt IN KOREA FILLS THE KOREAN PEOPLE AND THE
INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC WITH APPREHENSION. YOU PROBABLY REMEMBER
THAT THE 30TH SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY
CAL LED FOR URGENT MEASURES TO SOLVE THE KOREAN PROBLEM. IT
APPROVED A RESOLUTTON, TABLED (I.E. PROPOSED--FBIS) BY A LARGE GROUP
OF NATIONS INCLUDING THE SOVIET UNION, WHICH STRESSED THE NEED FOR
THE EARLY WITHDRAWAL OF ALL FOREIGN TROOPS FROM SOUTH KOREA. BUT THE
SEOUL REGIME, WHICH RELIES ON AMERICAN BAYONETS FOR SURVIVFL, HAS
BEEN RESISTING THE DECISION.
THE DRAFT RESOLUTION TO BE CONSIDERED BY THE COMING GEN.RQL ASSEMBLY
DEMANDS THAT ALL THE PEW TYPES OF MILITARY EQUIPMENT AND CRMS,
IRCT tJDING NUCLEAR ONES, BE REMOVED FROM SOUTH KOREA WITHOUT DELAY.
IT CALLS FOR AN END TO ALL ACTS OF AGGRESSION AGAINST THE KOREpt-
PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC ,AND THE (?REST OF THE) PROVOCATIVE
ACTIVITIES PREGNANT WITH GREAT TENSION AND THREAT OF A NEW WAR IN
KOREA.
THE WITHDRAWAL OF AMERICPN TROOPS AND ARMS FROM SOUTH KOREA
IS I LO;?G PRESSING PROBLEM. ITS SOLUTION WILL ER"BLE THE KOR ,r N
PEOPLE TO SETTLE THEIR DOMESTIC AFFAIRS THEMSELVES WITHOUT
FOREIGN INTERFERENCE, TO ENSURE PEACE AND THE REUNIFICATION OF
THEIR COUNTRY. THE COfISTRUC7~IVE STEPS TAKEN BY THE XOREPIN Pc.OPL 4'S
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC ~TO THIS END FEET 'IHE INTERESTS OF.THE :.ENTIRE t_*.
KOREAN PEOPLE. THE SOVIET UNION HAS 'INVARIABLY SUPPORTED THE
REP1,}B'_IC In ITS EFFORTS TO BRING OSOUT A PEACEFUL REUNIFICATION
OF 'SCREA ON A DEMOCRATIC BASIS. IT MAINTAINS THAT t SETTLEMENT
At fl THESE LINES CORRESPOIK*DS TO THE ASPIRATIONS OF THE .
KOREAN PEOPLE AND IS OF MAJOR IMPORTANCE FOR I1PROVItrG THE SITUATION
IN ASIA AND REINFORCING GENERAL PEACE.
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No Objection to Declassification in Full 2009/11/24: LOC-HAK-267-3-42-6