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The U.S. military in South Korea spreads ¡°Yankee culture and all sorts of social ills,¡± North Korea's state-controlled Pyongyang Broadcasting has claimed. In a program on Wednesday, the broadcaster said the U.S. Forces Korea were the source of prostitution, drugs and crime in South Korean society.
It also blasted the USFK for spreading "decadent music," citing the corrupting influence of blues and rock and roll in the 1960s, soul in the 1970s, disco in the 1980s and rap in the 1990s. Pornographic ¡°video tapes and publications brought in by U.S. soldiers became a factor driving the youth of South Korea along the path of frightening crime and depravity," it said.
It claimed USFK influence over the last 60 years eroded the unique speech, writing, dress, food culture and lifestyle of the Korean people. "U.S. soldiers indulge in bestial sexual assaults against South Korean women, and have polluted the bloodlines of our race, which remained unbroken for 5,000 years, and sullied the purity of the race," it said.
The broadcaster claimed it was the crime of ¡°U.S. imperialism¡± to ¡°spread perversion, sexuality, a culture of immorality and corruption and decadent lifestyle trends in order to paralyze the ideological spirit of the South Korean people."
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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