Ri Tong Je, chairman of the Association of Koreans in Japan for Peaceful Reunification, in a statement condemned Lee for committing such treachery and unethical crime that make even the successive ruling quarters blush.

The present worst situation in the history of inter-Korean relations is attributable to the Lee group's bitterness towards compatriots and confrontation hysteria, its inveterate bad habit, the statement said.

It demanded the Lee group immediately punish the prime movers of the worst treachery, make an apology to the whole nation for it and step down at once.

Kim Cha Dol, chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the Korean Youth League in Japan, in a statement branded Lee's such political provocation as hurting the dignity of the leadership of the DPRK, in utter disregard of the nation and human morality as an unheard-of challenge to the whole Korean nation and the thrice-cursed hideous act of treachery, the statement noted.

It is the fixed will of the whole nation that it can never pardon the Lee group of traitors' crimes against the nation, reunification, democracy and humanity, it stressed.

The Korean youth and students in Japan will join the youth and students in the north and the south and abroad in taking the lead in the struggle to shatter the group of traitors' moves to escalate the confrontation with fellow countrymen with a nationwide offensive and bring earlier independent reunification, peace and prosperity in firm solidarity and alliance under the banner of "By our nation itself", declared the statement.