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(26 Oct 1994) North Korea has called on American troops to pull out of the Korean peninsula without delay. The demand follows the agreement between Pyongyang and Washington over the North's nuclear programme. APTV has this exclusive report from the North Korean side of the demilitarised zone which separates North and South. Peasants bring in the rice harvest. It looks a model of rural peace. But this is North Korea, deep inside the demilitarised zone which marks the border between North and South. And this road leads straight to Panmunjom - perhaps the world's most dangerous nuclear flashpoint. Here, at the cluster of buildings that straddle the ceasefire line, one of the last battles of the Cold War continues unabated, despite the agreement in Geneva. North Korean soldiers face down their South Korean counterparts in a tense and silent standoff, separated by just a few metres. South Korean soldiers stand guard in dark glasses, their fists clenched, as their commander discusses troop positions with an American officer. The atmosphere is hostile and can easily explode into violence. In 1976 two American soldiers entered a joint security area to prune a tree - and were hacked to death by North Korean soldiers. The standoff, which lasted more than 40 years, has become a tourist spectacle. The South has built a platform from which visitors can peer into the North. North Korea's army numbers more than a million men, most of them deployed around the demilitarised zone. The South has 660-thousand men, plus 37-thousand American troops. Major Kim Guang Kil is a senior North Korean officer at Panmunjom. He says it's time for the Americans to pack their bags and go home: {SOT Major Kim Guang Kil, North Korean army (Korean with English translation): "Because of their military actions, the situation in this country is very tense. That's why the USA must withdraw from South Korea, with their weapons, so that we can keep the peace in the Korean peninsula."} But Washington sees the secretive, hardline Communist regime in Pyongyang as a threat to South Korea. And so long as there's a threat, calls for a US withdrawal seem certain to go unheeded. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...