Present there were servicepersons, officials of local party and power bodies, public organizations, institutions at various levels and industrial establishments, farms and universities, working people and students.

The statement of a spokesman for the Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army was read out there before speeches were made.

The speakers branded the Lee group as fanatics and gangsters keen on confrontation with fellow countrymen as it has stoked hostility towards the DPRK since the very day it came to power.

They expressed their firm will to react to the provocations of the group with a stern punishment and a war with a merciless retaliatory one.

The army and people of the DPRK will always emerge victorious as long as they are single-mindedly united around General Secretary Kim Jong Il and have matchless military muscle, they stressed.