Chairman An Kyong Ho and members of the North Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration and officials concerned hugged him before bidding farewell to him.

People from all walks of life and youth and students in Kaesong warmly sent off Rev. Han at Panmunjom, waving bouquets and chanting in chorus slogans "National reunification" and "By our nation itself".

As he crossed the line dividing Korea into the north and the south with a Korean Peninsula flag in his hand, plain-clothed agents handcuffed him and hastily took him away.