At the rally the organization called for concluding an agreement on peace on the peninsula in order to avert a war and put an end to the division.

Actions for peace being waged by civic, social and religious circles should be escalated into all-people ones, it held.

The organization said it would hold candlelight rallies for peace against war once in a month and stage them simultaneously in every part of south Korea including Inchon, Taejon, Kwangju and Taegu.