It was attended by at least 10,000 unionists under the KCTU.

Speeches were made at the rally.

Sin Sung Chol, chairman of the KCTU, termed the present regime threatening to stamp out the Teachers Union, the legitimate trade union, the regime violating democracy and suppressing labor.

The regime aims to oppress all the democratic trade unions in the wake of its suppression of the Teachers Union, he said, calling upon all organizations to turn out in the action to check the moves for cracking down on the trade union.

Ri Sang Mu, chairman of the Public Transport Trade Union, said that the commitments made by Park Geun Hye to push ahead with the privatization of railways, gas, electricity, medical care and other public sectors during the election campaign were false promises she made to realize her ambition to take power. He called for forcing the chief executive to step down as she does not work for the people and has no qualifications.

Kim Jong Hun, chairman of the Teachers Union, noted that the regime informed the union that it is not a trade union. This is little short of declaring the start of the second "yusin" dictatorship, he said, and went on: The regime is cracking down on the Teachers Union, not content with taking office through illegal operations. This is aimed to justify the May 16 military coup and intensify the moves to distort history designed to embellish the pro-Japanese acts and traitors.

Kim Jung Nam, chairman of the Government Employees Union, said that the Teachers Union is suppressed as the case is the same with the Government Employees Union. He expressed the will to settle the situation through solidarity actions of the workers.