Pyongyang, October 12 (KCNA) -- Women's organizations including the Women's Solidarity of south Korea held a press conference on Monday in the vicinity of the U.S. embassy in Seoul urging the U.S. to make apology for GIs' sexual assaults against girl students.

A press release was read out at the conference.

The release said that GIs' brutal sexual assaults against schoolgirls in Tongduchon of Kyonggi Province and Seoul sparked furor.

The incidents brought to light the inequality of the south Korea-U.S. "Status of Forces Agreement" (SOFA), it noted, and went on:

The police has no right to arrest and investigate GIs' evident crimes and the Prosecution has no right of intermediate appeal although the criminal is put on a trial. On the contrary, the SOFA grants the U.S. side only the right to bring appeal in a court. This is the essence of the agreement.

It is due to the shackling SOFA that the GIs' crimes are on the steady increase and victims are suffering pains.

The release urged the U.S. to immediately make apology for the sexual assaults, take measures to prevent the recurrence of similar incidents and revise the SOFA.

If the U.S. fails to accept the demand of the people, it would meet the same nation-wide candle-light resistance as in 2002 after the killing of two girl students, the release warned.

The participants in the conference staged demonstration holding slogan boards reading "U.S. president, apologize for sexual assaults by GIs in south Korea", "U.S., take measures to end GIs' crimes against women" and "Revise unequal SOFA at once".