The recent Associated Press figure of military officers who were dismissed for committing sexual assaults, drug and alcohol uses and all other crimes since 2005 showed four out of 10 officers above lieutenant colonel level for the past eight years.

Those who were dismissed after being charged with sexual assaults accounted for 30 percent.

Recently 18 generals and admirals were discharged 10 out of which were charged with crimes related to sexual assaults.

No wonder, a senior official of the U.S. Defense Department said that sexual assaults and other crimes have become a serious issue within the U.S. forces.

Muddy spring will have muddy streams.

Endemic among the U.S. soldiers are sexual assaults, drug abuse and addiction to alcohol which degenerate troop morals.

The U.S. Defense Secretary confessed that more than 3 100 cases of sexual assaults were reported among U.S. forces in 2011 alone, bringing the number of victims to 19 000.

According to a report published by the U.S. Defense Department, half of female soldiers who were sent to Iraq and Afghanistan fell victim to sexual harassment.

Amid the increasing drug abuse, a quarter of U.S. ground soldiers were disclosed to have used sedative against rule.

Irony is that drugs were prescribed at U.S. military bases, increasing the number of soldiers getting addicted to drugs.

Also funny is that the U.S. military has got busy forming a special investigation group within the army allegedly to check addiction to alcohol.

The U.S. misdeeds have sparked off furor worldwide, inviting international condemnation.

A typical example is GIs' despicable behaviors in Japan and south Korea.

Last year two members of the U.S. marines in Okinawa assaulted a 20-year old woman, enraging the locals.

This February a drunken soldier of the U.S. air force in Japan drove a car into another car before being arrested.

Crimes occurring in an unbroken chain in south Korea arouse strong protest and denunciation of people. When considering the year 2011 alone, in July a soldier in Waegwan U.S. military base in Chilgok County, North Kyongsang Province committed a sexual violence against a woman in her 40s and in September a drunken GI raped 18-year old schoolgirl in Tongduchon, Kyonggi Province and a soldier belonging to the U.S. 8th Army stormed a room of a schoolgirl in Mapho District, Seoul where he raped her and fled with a laptop computer.

Drunken GIs recently brandished lethal weapons and did damage to innocent inhabitants and policemen, arousing furor.

Much upset by this, the U.S. Forces Commands in Japan and south Korea ordered soldiers to abstain from wine and put in force a nighttime curfew. But it was just like closing the barn after the horse is stolen.

The true nature of the U.S. forces plagued with corruption can never change.

It is ridiculous for the U.S. to think of provoking the DPRK with such an army little short of a group of riff-raffs ill famed for corruption and crimes.