UK KFA supports the dissolution of the UNC in Korea

UK KOREAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION

                   London 2nd of July 2013

We support the call made by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for the dissolution of the so-called United Nations Command in south Korea. This ghost like body is a left-over relic of the Cold War and an instrument of US neocolonialism in south Korea as well as aggression against the DPRK.

                                   The continued existence of the so-called "UN Command " in south Korea has been invalidated by several facts. Firstly, UN General Assembly resolution 3390 passed as long ago as 1975 called for the dissolution of the UN
Command (why is the UNC in Korea still in existence 38 years later ?) Secondly, the fact that the DPRK itself joined the UN in 1991 so it is pointless for a UN Command directed against a full UN member. Thirdly, many of the countries involved in the "UN Command " actually have established diplomatic relations with the DPRK making their participation in the "UN Command" quite meaningless.
The "UN Command" basically is a tool of war which was organized by the U.S.  for the purpose of deploying its satellite forces(such as the UK) and exercising its control over them during the Korean War. After the ceasefire, the U.S. continued to seize and exercise its right to operational command in south Korea through the "UN Command". But, as the pressure mounted at home and abroad in the 1970s to dismantle the "UN Command" and withdraw its forces from south Korea, the U.S. had no other alternative but to form the U.S.-south Korea "Combined Forces Command" and transfer the right to operational command to it in 1978. Through this, it tried to legalize and perpetuate its occupation of south Korea by changing the nature of the U.S. troops in south Korea from the "UN forces" to that of the forces dispatched by the "ROK-U.S. Mutual Defense Treaty".
 The "UN Command " in south Korea could be easily transformed into  a NATO type structure in East Asia or even a replica of the so-called "international coalitions " built by the US in order to attack countries in the Balkans and the Middle East. The existence of the "UN command " in south Korea is a very grave threat to peace not only in Korea and east Asia but throughout the world.

                  It is now 60 years since the Korean Armistice Agreement was concluded but the US imperialist reactionaries still try to live in the era of the 1950s cold war.  The time is long overdue for the "UN command " to be cast into the dustbin of history and a permanent peace treaty between the DPRK and US established.

UK KFA