If only the Yanks were gone...

Pyongyang, August 17, 2005 (KCNA) -- The "Mt. Paektu-Mt. Halla grand march group for national reunification" reportedly held a meeting to vow to get the U.S. forces withdrawn from south Korea in front of the U.S. embassy in Seoul on August 13. Present there were at least 1,000 members of the reunification vanguard representing different walks of life including workers, peasants and women belonging to the grand march group who toured all parts of south Korea from August 2, stirring up the desire for national reunification. Speakers said at the meeting that now is the time for all Koreans to go united in order to get the U.S. forces withdrawn from south Korea and pull down the barrier of division on the Korean Peninsula. An order demanding the U.S. forces' pullout read out at the meeting called for forcing the U.S. forces to pull out of south Korea to remove the constant threat of war from the Korean Peninsula. At the end of the meeting the members of the march group formed a demonstration team and attempted to enter the U.S. embassy in order to thrust the order to it. As the security authorities rushed a police force of 15 companies to the scene to totally seal off the area around the embassy premises, the enraged demonstrators lay down on the road and staged a sit-in strike, chanting slogans "The U.S. forces, Quit south Korea" and "Let's drive Yankees out of south Korea and achieve the reunification of the country".

I like how the K.C.N.A peppers this U.S fear-inducer with ideas of "reunification". How exactly DOES the presence of the U.S military prevent Koreans from unifying? What are these South Koreans mad about? Well, just like Canada... you can get Communists spouting their flawed logic anywhere. In the North Korean world... all of ones problems MUST be blamed on the U.S military, as surely Kim Jong Il can not be the cause of any internal problems. Lets also be clear about what "reunification" means to them... Kim's army marching over the South.
The K.C.N.A talks about "driving the Yanks out of South Korea" almost everyday, but the funny thing is, even without an American military presence, South Korea would still destroy any under-fed force Kim could throw at them. How does a U.S presence affect anyone living in North Korea anyway? It's not like the Marines are storming Yongbyong... yet.
So nukes are developed, and the common Westerner is just supposed to sit back while Kim "nuclearly" black-mails the rest of the world.
If the D.P.R.K REALLY wanted American military forces to leave, an intense "sunshine-policy" could work. This would involve actually letting families that live across the border visit each other. The pathetic part of this solution, is that Kim would be committing political suicide letting his "subjects"travel to a land of freedom. Everyone knows they would never come back.
In my opinion, a North Korean nuclear test will be what actually unifies the Koreas.
Sad.

Update: Here is today's toned down version. Notice how the K.C.N.A somehow STILL declares a U.S military withdrawal as a necessity to achieving reunification(slipped in right at the end...)

Pyongyang, August 18,2005 (KCNA) -- At least 10,000 members of civic and public organizations including the Reunification Solidarity and the (south) Korean Confederation of Trade Unions held a rally at the university street in Seoul on August 15 at which they called for certainly achieving the independent and peaceful reunification of the country, south Korean MBC reported. The August 15 liberation of the country 60 years ago has left the wound of tragic division on the Korean nation due to the interference of foreign forces, the ralliers said, calling for national unity to reunify the country. It is time that the south and the north pooled their will to reunify the country in a peaceful way, they stressed. They distributed to citizens copies of literature demanding the peaceful reunification of the country and the withdrawal of the U.S. forces.