With the uprising as a momentum, many people, who had regarded the U.S. as a "liberator" and "benefactor" got awakened and the spirit of independent against the U.S. mounted in south Korea, says Rodong Sinmun in a bylined article.

32 years have passed since the patriotic resistance fighters shed blood on squares under the banner of the struggle against the U.S. and fascism. But the desire of the Kwangju uprisers for independence, democracy and reunification has not yet come true.

The south Korean people are groaning under the U.S. military occupation and domination and the fascist dictatorship of the pro-U.S. conservative group.

The U.S. presence in south Korea is the root cause of national split and inter-Korean confrontation and all sorts of misfortune and pain of the south Korean people. They can neither get rid of the yoke of colonial slavery nor be free from the danger of a war on the Korean Peninsula nor can they achieve their desire for reunification as long as the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces stay in south Korea. This is the bitter lesson taught by the uprising.

Minju Joson in a bylined article calls upon all the compatriots in the north, the south and overseas to wipe out the group of rat-like Myung Bak by their concerted efforts and bring about without fail a new society, independent and democratic, and a reunified country desired by the Kwangju resistance fighters 32 years back.