Honorary Chairman of the Association for Supporting the Prisoners of Conscience of the Family Movement for Realizing Democracy Kwon O Hon and others spoke there.

They described the UN Security Council's "resolution" against the north over its satellite launch as a wanton violation of the right to use space for peaceful purposes and an encroachment on the right to mutual equality.

The U.S. and several other countries launch satellites even for military use. The "sanctions" imposed on the north for its launch of the satellite for economic and peaceful purposes remind one of a thief crying "Stop the Thief!", they said.

They deplored the Lee Myung Bak regime joining the racket for imposing "sanctions" on the north where fellow countrymen live, far from feeling proud of the nation with the north's successful launch of the satellite with its own efforts.