Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun Wednesday says that there is some sense in the assertion and a lot of foreign scholars have shared similar views with the assertion since long ago.

The commentary goes on:

In view of the Korean Armistice Agreement and the 51st article of the UN Charter, the U.S.-south Korea "mutual defense treaty" is the abuse of the right of collective self-defense and open challenge to it.

The U.S. forces' occupation of south Korea should not be allowed to continue any longer as it is illegal.

Korea has undergone sufferings resulting from division and its people have not lived in peace as the U.S. has kept its forces in south Korea for more than a half century.

The U.S. forces in south Korea are to blame for all sorts of crimes such as murder, rape and robbery there and they are also to blame the root cause of ceaseless confrontation between the fellow countrymen on the Korean peninsula.

The U.S. imperialists have staged illegal nuclear war drills with the south Korean puppet forces every year in a bid to inflict a nuclear disaster upon the Korean people.

The U.S. forces' occupation of south Korea and their moves for igniting a nuclear war are becoming the root cause of putting the U.S. mainland at peril.

The U.S. would be well advised to admit the illegality of its forces' occupation of south Korea and withdraw them from it in time.

Doing so would do the U.S. good either