Let’s drive the US troops out of south Korea
　

   From the outset of the year the flame of the anti-US independent struggle is violently spreading throughout the whole of south Korea.

The NDFSK’s CC called on the patriotic people of all strata in south Korea to bravely stage the nation-wide anti-US struggle to check and frustrate the maneuvers of the American nuclear blackmail and pull the US troops out of south Korea this year.

In a positive response to it the headquarters of the People's Movement for Driving out the US Troops expressed on 3 January its resolution to wage the massive struggle to expel the US troops declaring this year a year of withdrawal of the US troops and the South Korean Federation of the University Student Councils (an one million-student organization) announced its determination to direct all the struggle to the anti-Americanism through the massive anti-UA resistance encompassing the people from the different social strata and step up the struggle to drive out the US troops in a bid to bring about the breaking hole in the American colonial rule and glorify this year as a proud one for the great victory in the patriotic anti-US struggle.

The representatives of the Democratic Confederation of the Trade Unions and the National Association of the Farmers and other 188 civic social organizations in south Korea convened on 13 January a New Year press conference to declare this year a year of independence and peace and set forth their resolution to stage the struggle to revise the unequal South Korea-US Status of Armed Forces Agreement and against the American hard-line policy toward Korea.

The Joint Practice for Realization of Peace against War, consisting of over 700 civic organizations held a press interview on 21 January in front of the American Embassy to denounce the US hard-line policy toward north Korea.

On the other hand the anti-US candlelight demonstrations have been staged as intensely as last year in several parts of south Korea.

On 11, 14, 18, and 26 in the wake of last January 4, several thousands of civilians, students, artists, religionists and children from everywhere across the country including Seoul conducted the candlelight demos singing the militant songs and chanting the slogans like “No War!”, “Let’s Drive Out the US Troops!” and “Revise the SOFA!”.

The demonstrators also performed multifarious plays of the anti-US theme including poem recital, songs, playing instrumental music and composing the 4-lined verses.

In the meantime the sacrificing struggle of the youth and students who waged the anti-US hunger strike in the Myongdong Cathedral in Seoul from 5 to 20 last January regardless of the cold weather greatly excited the people's sentiment as a manifestation of the volition of the south Korean people to bring about the breakthrough in the anti-US struggle through the overall struggle against the US with the do-or-die resolution.

Yun Gi-jin, leader of the Youth and Students’ Hunger Strike Group for Anti-US, Anti-war, Urging the Conclusion of the Non-aggression Treaty between North Korea and the US and the Withdrawal of the US Troops who Killed the Schoolgirls and chairman of the south Headquarters of the Pan Youth and Students Association held a press meeting on 5 January to declare that the root cause of the ever growing confrontation between north Korea and the US stems from the US plots of a nuclear war against the North and he would stage a hunger strike to check the American nuclear racket which threatens the right of existence of our nation through the anti-US, anti-war movement, urge the conclusion of a non-aggression treaty and expel the US troops, the murderers, calling for a dynamic anti-US resistance without slight vacillation.

  The NDFSK and the people of different social standings will develop the ever mounting the anti-US storm into a massive anti-US resistance in order to gain the brilliant victory in the grand showdown with the US by the national cooperation this year.