It was attended by members of the North Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration and the north headquarters of the Pan-national Alliance for Korea's Reunification and the Pan-national Alliance of Youth and Students for Korea's Reunification and working people in the city of Pyongyang.

An Kyong Ho, chairman of the North Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration, said in his speech at the meeting that Rev. Han's visit to Pyongyang is a righteous deed prompted by the desire to condemn the anti-reunification forces for inciting confrontation among the fellow countrymen and war atmosphere and give steady continuity to the strong current towards the independent reunification through valiant practice.

The speaker stressed that all Koreans in the north and the south and abroad should get closely united under the banner of "By our nation itself" and intensify the struggle to reject the outside forces' interference and arbitrary practices, give a stern punishment to the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors seeking to stamp out the inter-Korean joint declarations and remove all the source of war from the Korean Peninsula.

Han Sang Ryol in his speech noted that he could not but come over the barrier of division "illegally" to Pyongyang only to preserve the June 15 joint declaration and share the dream of reunification with fellow countrymen in the north.

Pointing to the crimes of the Lee Myung Bak group which is bringing the dark clouds of war to hang over the nation while engaging itself in the dictatorship against democracy and the policy of trampling down independence and destroying natural environment, he stressed that the patriotic forces would surely emerge victorious no matter how wildly the traitorous forces rush about.

He will be imprisoned when returning to south Korea, but he has no more to desire than to contribute to the national reconciliation and peaceful reunification, Han said, stressing that the Koreans should get united as one and make a new history of peaceful reunification as they are of a homogenous nation that can never exist separated.