Ri Chan Bok, representative of the Panmunjom Mission of the Korean People's Army (KPA), has urged UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to dismantle the US-made "UN Command" and pull US troop out of the Korean Peninsula.

The massive US military build-up in South Korea prompted the KPA to judge that US preparations for a preemptive attack on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) have reached their climax, Ri said in a letter to Annan on Monday.

"A war in Korea is almost unavoidable as long as the US hostile policy toward the DPRK goes on," Ri warned.

"It is a stark fact recognized by the world that the constant danger of war prevailing on the Korean Peninsula is attributable to the US hostile policy toward the DPRK and the presence of the US forces in South Korea," he said.

The danger of war can neither be removed from the Korean Peninsula, "nor can peace and security in the region be expected unless the presence of those forces in South Korea is terminated,"he added.

Ri noted that "the United Nations is also responsible for the misfortune and sufferings the Korean people have undergone," recalling that the United States "committed shuddering atrocities against the Koreans, and pursued a hostile policy toward the DPRK, and occupied South Korea under the UN flag."

He emphasized that "if the UN admits itself as a signatory to the Korean Armistice Agreement (AA), it is obliged to implement Paragraph 60 of the AA on withdrawing all foreign forces from Korea as early as possible."