The appeal said that the Korean nation with a long history of 5,000 years had been totally deprived of the country's sovereignty and forced into slavery under the harsh colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists since they faked up the above-said illegal and invalid treaty in a brigandish manner at the point of bayonet and unilaterally announced it.

The appeal said: Japan is waiting for a chance to stage a comeback to Korea, promoting visits to "Yasukuni Shrine", a symbol of aggression, shamelessly tampering with history and pursuing the moves to grab Tok Islet, etc. far from making due apology and reparation for its past crimes still today. Moreover, it is persistently standing in the way of the reunification of the Korean nation.

Noting that the reality urgently requires the 70 million Koreans to get united close as one and force Japan to redeem all its past crimes and thus defend the dignity and sovereignty of the nation and accomplish the historic cause of national reunification, the above-said organizations made the following appeal to all Koreans in the north and the south and overseas:

Let us force Japan to settle all its past crimes and demonstrate the independence and dignity of the nation under the uplifted banner of "By our nation itself."

The year 2010 marks the lapse of a century since the "Korea-Japan Annexation Treaty" was fabricated by the Japanese imperialists.

Let all Koreans in the north and the south and abroad fix the year 2010 as a "year of nationwide anti-Japanese joint struggle" and wage a dynamic mass movement for forcing Japan to make apology and reparation for its hideous past crimes.

Let us decisively frustrate Japan's moves to revive militarism and stage a comeback to Korea.

Let us never allow such treachery of the "five traitors of 1905" of modern type as sycophancy and reliance upon foreign forces.

Let us dynamically advance the June 15 era for reunification through the great unity of the nation.

Whoever is a member of Tangun's nation truly loving the country and nation and aspiring after reunification should place the national interests above anything else and unite close irrespective of ideology, ism, political view and religious belief to achieve independent reunification, peace and prosperity.

Let us foil the anti-reunification acts of fostering distrust and confrontation between fellow countrymen and achieve national unity on the principle of promoting each other's confidence and reconciliation.