The statement recalled that the nation marked the 38th anniversary of the publication of the July 4 joint statement which clarified the three principles of national reunification-- independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity.

The joint statement which clarified the fundamental stand and ways for national reunification brought the fellow countrymen hope for the reunification and it is fully displaying its vitality and validity thanks to the June 15 joint declaration, it said, adding:

The youth and students are now faced with the task to advance for the implementation of the June 15 joint declaration and peace against war under the uplifted slogan "Let us reunify the country by peaceful means by concerted efforts of the Koreans!"

The statement chided the U.S. and the Lee Myung Bak "government" for escalating the tension on the Korean Peninsula by frantically staging war exercises, beefing up armed forces and resuming the psychological warfare against the DPRK with the "Cheonan" case as a momentum.

That day the organization also made public an appeal calling for turning out in actions against the moves of the puppet group to eliminate the progressive forces.