Speakers asserted at the meeting that the joint declaration serves as a great programme for reunification as it reflects the aspiration of the nation to achieve the independent reunification of the country by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation.

They referred to the fact that all the Korean compatriots in the north and the south and overseas have made utmost endeavors to implement the joint declaration which instilled fresh hope for reunification into them.

Saying that the Lee Myung Bak regime totally denied the June 15 joint declaration and incited confrontation with fellow countrymen, driving the inter-Korean relations to the worst phase, they dismissed the group of traitors as targets to be removed before anybody else.

They called on all the Koreans in the U.S. to positively wage the struggle for opposing the confrontation with compatriots and war and defending peace in firm unity in the idea of "By our nation itself" in the "period of movement for implementing the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration".

After the meeting an art performance was appreciated.

Meanwhile, the Federation of Koreans in the U. S. released a written appeal on June 15 stressing the need to make all efforts for national reunification, ardent wish and desire of all the compatriots in the south and the north and overseas, and prosperity of the nation, force the Lee "government" made up of traitors to step down and implement the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration.