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N. Korea sees destabilisation plot

By P. S. Suryanarayana

SINGAPORE, JUNE 13. North Korea today denounced what it saw as a U.S.-inspired plan of the Group of Eight (G-8) countries to turn its territory into "another Iraq,'' even as South Korea indicated that it would press ahead with its move to send additional troops to Iraq.

North Korea's comment was in response to the focus in East Asia on the participation by individual states in a multinational force in Iraq under the terms of the U.N. Security Council resolution 1546.One of the decisions that South Korea would now require to make is whether these additional troops should be sent to form part of the proposed multinational force under a U.N. mandate, as distinct from the present U.S.-led "coalition of the willing''. As monitored in Seoul, a N. Korean official condemned the G-8 for its moves in the name of non-proliferation. Referring to the calls for complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantling of Pyongyang's nuclear-weapons programme, North Korea's official news agency quoted a Government spokesman as saying that "we cannot but wake up to all those attempts to divide and devour our country like they did (in the case of) Iraq.''

The official said "it will never be possible for them to make another Iraq." On the U.S. plans to re-deploy its troops in South Korea and also shift some of them to Iraq from the border with North Korea, Pyongyang said the purpose was to gain `control' over the world.

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