The organizations at the press conference recalled that the treaty outlawing cluster bombs would formally take effect from August 1.

Pointing out that the U.S. and Israel used cluster bombs in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and other places, doing harm to a lot of people, the organizations held the fact that 95 percent of those killed by those bombs were civilians brings into bolder relief the danger of the use of these bombs.

This prompted the world community to make a treaty calling for banning the production and stockpile and transfer of these bombs and other acts and eliminating them, clarified the organizations.

Accusing the U.S. and south Korean authorities of shying away from the accession to the treaty under an absurd pretext and contemplating the use of this weapon against the DPRK, they declared that fellow countrymen would, therefore, suffer tremendous damage in case a war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula.

The organizations demanded the authorities take substantial measures for eliminating all WMDs including cluster bombs.