Hua firm on one Korea
NZPA-Reuter Peking The Chinese leader, Mr Hua Kuo-feng, said in a hard-line speech yesterday that his country would never recognise South Korea, and accused the United States of pursuing a policy of aggression in Korea. Chairman Hua was addressing a rally of 100,000 people in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, on the third day of his first official trip aboard. Mr Hua said Korea was artificially divided because ‘ United States imperialism occupies South Korea and pursues a policy of dividing Korea,” the New China News Agency reports. He called for a complete United States troop withdrawal. He condemned the socalled cross-recognition concept under which Western countries would recognise North and South Korea. “We maintain that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is the sole legitimate sovereign Korean State,” the Chinese leader said.
“We do not recognise the South Korean authorities. The reunification of Korea is the common desire of all the people . . . “Any scheme to create two Koreas is doomed to utter failure,” Mr Hua said.
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