The uprisers drove out the heavily-armed martial forces from the city and seized it for ten days, with slogans "Remove emergency martial law", "Abolish Yusin system" and "Go home, Yankees".

The uprising suffered a failure by brutal crackdown of the military fascist clique, which was engineered by the United States. But it, involving more than one million people, dealt a heavy blow to the colonial fascist rule of the U.S. imperialists and the puppet military dictatorial forces.

It left a bitter lesson that it is impossible to achieve social progress, national unity and reunification as long as there remain in south Korea the U.S. forces and their followers, the traitors to the nation.

The present ruling "Saenuri Party" in south Korea is none other than a successor to the then ruling "Democratic Justice Party". It is now planning to put a "bill on dissolution of criminal bodies" through the "National Assembly". Such moves to stamp out the pro-reunification movement remind one of the period of the Chun Doo Hwan military fascist dictatorship, which had been hell-bent on repression of the patriotic forces desirous of independence, democracy and reunification.

The south Korean people should put an end to the tragic situation in which patriotic deeds are incriminated and justice is calumniated by injustice, and turn out in the struggle for independence and reunification in the same spirit displayed by the Kwangju uprisers.