KCNA articles on the US

Shootings Rampant in U.S.

Pyongyang, February 19 (KCNA) -- Shooting incidents have been reported one after another in the United States from early this year. When a gathering was taking place in front of a department store in Arizona on January 8, a 22-year-old man fired at ralliers, killing and wounding some of them. Earlier, on the fifth, a student of a senior high school in Omaha City, Nebraska fired at teachers, leaving the deputy principal dead and the principal wounded. Several were shot to death in senior high schools in southern Chicago, Georgia and in the suburbs of Los Angels. Gun ownership is allowed for all by law in the United States. Firearms in the hands of individuals total more than 200 million in the country. According to a civic organization of the United States, an estimated 100 000 people are victims of shootings every year, more than 30 000 of them losing their lives. This figure provides a glimpse of U.S. society′s true colors. -0-

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Anodyne Abuse Gets Serious among GIs Pyongyang, February 19 (KCNA) -- With the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan being protracted, anodyne-addicted U.S. troops are steadily growing in number. The number of U.S. soldiers hospitalized for anodyne abuse has doubled in years. According to a survey by the U.S. Army, a third of the injured, an estimated 10 000, are addicted to such medicines as painkiller. The anodyne abuse of U.S. soldiers has been reportedly caused by their stress pent-up during a long military service in other countries, fear of death and terrible experience of battles. The prescriptions of pain-killing medicines, including anesthetic, for soldiers total 3.7 million in 2009, 85 percent higher than in 2001, said the U.S. Defense Department in its statistics. Those diagnosed as diseases caused by medicine abuse have increased 50 percent every year from 2005 to 2009, reaching 40 000. The number of those hospitalized for the same reason was 100 on a monthly average in 2003 but 250 in 2009. Among the medicine addicts are some generals. What is beyond imagination is a social problem to be raised by the addicts after being discharged from military service

U.S. Diplomats Fear for Terrorism

By Hong Kyong A Pyongyang, February 19 (KCNA) -- U.S. diplomats abroad have reportedly considered wearing bulletproof vests. Not only U.S. troops but also diplomats have become targets of revenge in countries where the U.S. launched a war on terrorism. Some time ago, a staff member of the U.S. consulate in Pakistan was shot on a roadway. It was another tragedy caused by the U.S. "anti-terrorism war". The U.S., under the plea of anti-terrorism war, invaded Iraq and Afghanistan allegedly to bring "freedom" and "democracy" to those countries. But what they have done there were massacres of civilians. Many people have been killed in Pakistan, too, by U.S. drone attacks. The U.S. "anti-terrorism war" has caused a vicious cycle of terrorism and revenge and social disorder in those countries. The afore-said shooting was an expression of the anti-U.S. sentiments ever growing in these countries. The "anti-terrorism war" is viewed as a pitfall for the U.S. -0-