Open Questionnaire to U.S. Ambassador to S. Korea Issued
Pyongyang, February 21 (KCNA) -- The People for Achieving Peace and Reunification, the Wind for Peace, the Solidarity
for Social Progress, the Phaengsong Town Measure Committee against Expansion of the U.S. Forces' Base, the National
Catholic Alliance for Justice, the Seoul District Federation of University Student Councils and the Youth and Students
Solidarity for Implementing the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration in south Korea released an open questionnaire to
the U.S. ambassador to south Korea on Feb. 15, according to a news report. The questionnaire referred to the fact that
the "meeting of the south Korea-U.S. Alliance Security Policy Initiative" discussed in depth the issue of increasing the
role of the U.S. forces in south Korea.
What matters is that the U.S. intention is to turn the Korean Peninsula into an outpost for U.S. military supremacy in
Northeast Asia, the questionnaire said, denouncing the U.S. unilateral and arrogant act of putting all sorts of pressure
upon the south Korean government authorities to accept its demand.
It went on: Increasing the role of the U.S. forces would spark arms buildup in south Korea and escalate the military
tension not only in the Korean Peninsula but in Northeast Asia and, furthermore, lay a stumbling block in the way of
south-north reconciliation and cooperation and peaceful reunification, the desire of the nation.
The questionnaire demanded that what was discussed at the negotiations aimed at the permanent presence of the U.S.
forces in the Korean Peninsula be withdrawn at once and all the negotiations and meetings designed to realize the U.S.
unilateral ambition for military supremacy be stopped.