Pyongyang, November 23 (KCNA) -- The commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet called the DPRK an "unpredictable country" and a "country of concern" at a recent press conference. Timed to coincide with this, the U.S. secretary of Defense blustered that as an ally of south Korea the U.S. will brace up for possible provocation from north Korea.

Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun Wednesday says in a bylined commentary:

Their remarks amount to counterpropaganda of the aggression forces for the permanent presence of the U.S. forces in south Korea.

The U.S. has so far groundlessly blamed the north for "threatening to invade the south" to justify its force's presence in south Korea. But threats have come from the south, not from the north in actuality and it remains the case.

It is the unchanged U.S. scenario to stay in south Korea for an indefinite period and effect the Asia strategy for domination.

The U.S. is calling the DPRK a "country of concern" in an aim to contain the potential rivals in Asia-Pacific and maintain and strengthen its hegemony.

The U.S. policies for presence in south Korea and hegemony in the region are anachronistic.

Voices demanding the withdrawal of the overseas-based U.S. forces are growing in different parts of the world. South Korea is not an exception. The aggressors had better stop counterpropaganda and go home.