The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) called on the
United Nations to dismantle the "UN Command" in South Korea, DPRK's
Ambassador Pak Gil Yon said in a letter to the Secretary-General
Kofi Annan.
In the letter, which is circulated Thursday night, Pak pointed
out that the United States recently argued that the UN peacekeeping
operations do not play a due role in ending conflicts and securing
peace and stability and those lasted longer than necessary should
be terminated.
The DPRK holds that dismantling the UN Command that has existed
in South Korea for more that half a century is indeed the primary
target of the UN reform, Pak said.
"We cannot think of true UN reform if hangovers from the past
century that do not have an actual relationship with the United
Nations are left intact because the super-power has a hand in
them," he stressed.
Pak noted that the General Assembly recognized in 1975 that the
continued existence of the UN Command was unnecessary, and adopted
a resolution to dismantle it.
"Nevertheless, the United States is insisting on the continued
existence of the command, which reveals its ulterior intention to
maintain its military supremacy in the Korean peninsula and North
East Asia by continuously misusing the UN name," he noted.
(Xinhua News Agency March 4, 2006)
