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Stability criteria are derived for the difference system \[ x_{n +1}- x_n+Ax_{n-k}= 0,\quad n=0,1,2, \dots, \tag{1} \] where \(A\) is a \(2\times 2\) constant matrix and \(k\) is a nonnegative integer. Without loss of any generality, the matrix \(A\) is either of the canonical form \[ A=q\left(\begin{matrix} \cos\theta & -\sin \theta\\ \sin\theta & \cos\theta \end{matrix}\right),\;q\in \mathbb{R},\;|\theta |\leq {\pi\over 2},\quad\text{ or }\quad A=\left( \begin{matrix} q_1 & b\\ 0 & q_2 \end{matrix}\right),\;q_1,b,q_2 \in\mathbb{R}. \] In the first case, it is shown that (1) is asymptotically stable if, and only if, \[ 0<q<2 \cos{k\pi+ |\theta |\over 2k+1}, \] and in the second case, it is shown that (1) is asymptotically stable if, and only if, \[ 0<q_1<2\cos {k\pi\over 2k+1},\quad\text{ and }\quad 0<q_2<2 \cos{k\pi \over 2k+1}. \] We remark that asymptotic stability criteria for the continuous analog of (1), namely, \[ x'(t)=B x(t-\tau), \] where \(B\) is a \(2\times 2\) constant matrix and \(\tau>0\), have been obtained by \textit{Z. G. Zhang} and \textit{Y. H. Yu} [Asymptotic stability of delay differential system (in Chinese), Proceedings of the Fifth Conference in Stability Theory of Differential Equations, Dalian, China, 196-199 (1996)].