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.