The organizations in their joint statement on Feb. 5 said that the situation is getting tenser day by day on the Korean Peninsula where the atmosphere of national reconciliation and unity had been prevalent and this is arousing serious concern from among the international community aspiring after Korea's reunification.

They bitterly denounced the Lee Myung Bak group's policy of confrontation with the DPRK and expressed full support for the statements of a spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People's Army and the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea that clarified the DPRK's principled stand to crush such policy.

They strongly urged the south Korean authorities to stop the military provocative moves against the DPRK at once, respect the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration and make a radical switchover in their policy for Korea's reunification.