Pyongyang, August 15 (KCNA) -- South Korean reunification movement organizations and human rights organizations including the Solidarity for Democracy, People's Life, Peaceful Reunification and Sovereignty held a press conference outside the puppet Defense Ministry on August 12 demanding the resignation of the military boss, the south Korean Yonhap News reported.

Speakers at the press conference charged that the military tension is escalating due to a string of belligerent remarks made by Kim Kwan Jin, minister of Defense, and his misdeeds.

They accused him of inciting the consciousness of confrontation by pursuing a hard-line policy toward the north.

Serious human rights abuses within the army are a product of such moves to escalate the confrontation.

They declared they would launch dynamic actions for the resignation of the defense minister.