Pyongyang, September 10 (KCNA)-- Robert Bell, Senior Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control at the White House National Security Council, on September 5 said "Korea is the one place in the world where the cold war has not ended" and "There has to be in the treaty to ban anti-personnel land mines an exception for Korea". Bell reportedly reiterated the U.S. position favouring an exception for Korea in using antitank mines. He said the United States will stand firmly by its policy to seek the Korean Peninsula as a geographic exception in the ongoing talks in Oslo. Calling for removal of mines for public opinion, the United States is seeking a "geographic exception" for south Korea where a large number of mines have been planted. The U.S. imperialists are raising the rumour about "threat from north Korea" to defend their vicious intention. Bell's remarks are an undisguised challenge to the just demand of opinion, and betray the dirty intention of the U.S. imperialist warmaniacs to keep hold on south Korea as a permanent colony and military base and unleash another war of aggression in the Korean Peninsula. KCNA Shawgi Tell Graduate School of Education University at Buffalo [EMAIL PROTECTED]