South Korea is Not Part of the United States!
By using American names for areas of South Korea with U.S. military installations, is Washington trying to turn that country into a kind of U.S. colony? According to this 'commentary' from North Korea's state-run Korean News, this 'a bid to permanently Americanize south Korea and numb its consciousness to national independence.'
September 26, 2006
North Korea - Korean News - Home Page (English)
Pyongyang:
A spokesman for the Northern Headquarters of the Special Committee Probing the
Truth of GI Crimes in a statement on Tuesday, vehemently denounced the United
States for its accursed crime of giving American names to places in south Korea,
even though they already have their own Korean names. Ever since its occupation
of south Korea, the U.S. has staged the farce of instructing the American intelligence
services to call areas with its military installations by the names of areas with
similar geographical features in the U.S. The statement went on:
The U.S.
has since called its military bases on the eastern and western tips of Korea in
Kyongsang and Jolla Provinces, "Florida" and "Hawaii," just
as Florida and Hawaii are located at the eastern and western ends of the U.S.
It has also called a military base in Pusan "Camp Hialeah," after
Hialeah in Florida.
It is
deplorable that some areas of south Korea, which host
U.S. military bases, are still called "Camp Casey" and "Camp
Walker" and so on, which are the names of the devilish homicidal generals
of U.S. forces, who became infamous in the last Korean war.
This is a
brazen act aimed at infusing U.S. worship and U.S. phobia into the minds of south Koreans, in a bid to permanently Americanize south
Korea and numb its consciousness to national independence.
Koreans
will never remain onlookers to the criminal acts of the Yankees. They will
never accept the usurpation of the names of their native places, which have
been bequeathed to them by their ancestors, and they have defended, generation
after generation. This is a matter of sovereignty, dignity and the living soul
of their nation.
The U.S.
imperialist aggressors should never forget that no matter how hard they work to
implant American names, south Korea can never become
part of the United States. To expect otherwise is nothing but a pipe dream.