The statement charged that on April 3 the prosecution brought the said members to trial and demanded heavy penalties up to nine years' imprisonment for them.

Those incriminating the struggle for the implementation of the June 15 joint declaration and desperately trying to check the reunification movement will be surely punished by history, it warned.

The Lee Myung Bak "government", it said, is getting hell-bent on the repression by employing all the tricks to maintain its existence, but such moves will only accelerate its own downfall.

The statement urged the authorities to stop the suppression of those members of the solidarity, who have devotedly worked for national reunification, and set them free at once.