Pyongyang, November 12 (KCNA) -- The 2008 workers' meeting to inherit the spirit of martyr Jon Thae Il took place in Seoul on Nov. 9 with at least 40,000 people including unionists under the south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) and members of civic and public organizations such as the Solidarity for Implementing the South-North Joint Declaration and the South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification attending.

Speakers at the meeting accused the Lee Myung Bak "government" of working hard to drive the economy to bankruptcy at any cost, saying that it is absolutely intolerable to threaten and blackmail the KCTU through the suppression of it.

They declared that the workers would wage an uninterrupted struggle against the anti-worker and unpopular policy of the "government".

The participants made public a 20-point request demanding the wholesale resignation of the present cabinet, a total drop of the U.S.-style neo-liberal policy, a total revision of the "law on part-time job", a stop to the privatization of public enterprises, etc.

A resolution on actions read out at the meeting called upon all the workers to make a great historic long journey for the people's living and democracy through an all-out solidarity action and an all-out struggle and take the lead in the struggle of the people.

At the end of the meeting, more than 1,000 unionists under the KCTU held a candlelight rally denouncing the "government's" suppression of media.