calendar>>February 5. 2019 Juche 108

U.S. Demand for Upkeep Rise Opposed in S. Korea

Pyongyang, February 5 (KCNA) -- "The People for Achieving Peace and Reunification", an organization of south Korea, held a meeting in the plaza of Kwanghwamun in Seoul on Jan. 31 to oppose the U.S. demand for a hike in the upkeep of its forces stationed in south Korea, according to the south Korean online paper Tongil News.

The speakers said that the U.S. should have shouldered the total upkeep, but the "government" has shouldered almost full upkeep.

They blasted the U.S. for demanding even the upkeep of the deployment of their strategic assets and the maintenance of THAAD.