The atmosphere of the anti-US for independence and

national co-operation mount in south Korea

Only 22 percent of south Koreans said that they disaffirm the US and 20 percent advocated independent diplomacy in the 1990s.

However, after the publication of the inter-Korean joint declaration, 50 percent of south Koreans regard the US as a big obstacle to Korea’s reunification and 64 percent demand pursuance of independence in relations between the US. Meanwhile, the south Koreans said that south Korea should define the US as an arch enemy not north Korea. On the other hand, only 35 percent assert “strengthening of south Korea-US alliance” and it decreased 25 percent before the publication of the South-North Joint Declaration.

More than 13,000 anti-US struggles had been waged with attendance of more than 20 million people during five years in south Korea and it is unprecedented in terms of scale and wide-spreadness.

Recently the south Korean authorities is examining its foreign policy of rejecting the US, saying that the US double-faced thought is not conducive to the solution of the Korean Peninsula and nobody cannot force its unilateral intention to other countries. The US clamors that the south Korea-US strategic foundation is destroyed and cracks are made in the south Korea-US alliance.

Cooperation between the south and the north of Korea has increased more than ever before.

Despite the obstructive moves of the ultra-right forces of south Korea, the south Korean people of all social standings vigorously conduct multifarious functions and struggle for national unity and reunification, saying that the Korean people should solve the nuclear issue with the US and realize independent reunification with concerted efforts of the Korean people. Politicians of the ruling and opposition parties irrespective of idea and political view participated the June 15 and August 15 national festivals for national reunification. The civic and the government authorities’ demand for taking preference to the inter-Korean relations overwhelm the assertion of “south Korea-US alliance” and 34 percent of the south Koreans said that the south should give military aid to north Korea if a war breaks out between the north and the US.