The U.S. magazine Forbes carried an article contributed by a senior researcher of the Cato Research Institute in which he said the U.S. forces' presence in south Korea is no longer necessary, the commentary says, and goes on:

It is the demand of the times to withdraw the U.S. forces from south Korea and a matter whose solution cannot be avoided by the U.S. any longer.

If the U.S. is to get rid of the situation where it is facing increasing rebuff and condemnation of the world peace-loving people and at home, it should drop its policy of domination and interference in internal affairs of other countries and pull back its forces from various parts of world, from south Korea, in particular, as early as possible.

The DPRK has made sincere efforts for peace but even the issue of building a peace mechanism on the Korean Peninsula has not yet been discussed due to the objection of the U.S.

The U.S. behavior sidestepping the above-said issue is little short of openly evading its obligation as the party directly responsible for solving the issue of the Korean Peninsula.

The U.S. is busy ceaselessly escalating the tension on the peninsula to hurt someone, still obsessed with the anachronistic way of thinking and daydream. This does the U.S. itself no good.

It is the unanimous demand of fair public opinion that its hostile policy toward the DPRK should be rolled back and its forces should quit south Korea.

If the U.S. persistently pursues its anachronistic hostile policy toward the DPRK and its scenario for its forces' permanent presence in south Korea, not lending an ear to this, it will find itself in a deeper mire of international isolation and destruction.