At the rally speakers recalled that the Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises will start on August 19, the largest-ever war exercises with hundreds of thousands of troops including U.S. forces involved.

The warmongers will stage drills for making a preemptive strike on the north with various type latest nuclear offensive means involved, they said, adding it is sheer sophism to describe the saber-rattling as defensive one.

These military exercises will further escalate the crisis on the Korean Peninsula, they charged.

In order to defuse the danger of war it is important to conclude a peace treaty, they said, calling for waging a dynamic struggle to put an end to the present regime's policy of confrontation with fellow countrymen and preserve the June 15 spirit.

The participants in the rally called for concluding a peace treaty to remove the danger of war and putting an end to the confrontation policy of the present "government" and preserve the spirit of June 15 joint declaration by dynamic struggle.