N. Korea welcomes Roh reinstatement

N. Korea welcomes Roh reinstatement

SOUTH KOREA: North Korea on Sunday welcomed the reinstatement of South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, urging South Koreans to launch a battle against U.S. troops.

Roh was reinstated last week after South Korea's constitutional court rejected his impeachment by the National Assembly, ending two months of political paralysis.

The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, a cabinet-level state organization in the communist country, said the court's decision was a public judgment against pro-U.S. conservative forces.

"The decision ... was prompted by the South Korean people. This clearly shows again that the U.S. colonial rule and pro- American flunkyist act of the conservative forces can no longer work in South Korea," the committee said in a statement issued through Pyongyang's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). --AFP.