Speakers said that since the publication of the joint declaration all Koreans in the north and the south and abroad have worked hard to achieve national reconciliation and unity under the banner of "By our nation itself" and waged a strenuous movement for national reunification.

But the emergence of the Lee Myung Bak regime put the implementation of the joint declaration at an ordeal and increased the danger of war on the Korean Peninsula, they held.

They called upon the forces for independence, democracy and reunification to resolutely reject the fascist dictatorial rule of the present regime in south Korea in solidarity and unity.