The organizations deplored that since the Lee Myung Bak regime came to power the south-north relations went off the rails and a check-bar was dropped in the way of the country's reunification.

The Lee Myung Bak regime should stop at once the joint military exercises with the U.S. and resume the non-governmental exchanges between the south and the north, they urged.

Noting that Rev. Han Sang Ryol visited the north for the improved south-north relations as a peace-loving religionist, they demanded the authorities immediately stop threatening that they would take a legal action against him.