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SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea (news - web sites) said US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's trip to Seoul this week was a "criminal junket" and South Koreans should rise up to drive US troops from their shores.
Rumsfeld left Seoul Tuesday following a three-day trip for annual security consultations with South Korean defense chiefs.
He discussed sensitive plans to realign 37,000 US troops in South Korea (news - web sites), including a pullback from the border with North Korea and the relocation further south of the US military headquarters now at Seoul's Yongsan garrison.
The 13-month-old North Korean nuclear crisis and a US request for South Korean troops for duty in Iraq (news - web sites) were also discussed.