A joint statement was read out at the rally.

The south Korean chief executive has no willingness to settle the issue though she revealed her general incompetence in the course of the ferry Sewol disaster, it charged.

The present chief executive is chiefly to blame for the death of hundreds of children, it held.

It said that the bereaved families and people of all social standings of south Korea and Koreans in the U.S. demand the institution of a special law for a thoroughgoing and independent investigation.

Then the participants of the rally staged a demonstration. The demonstrators marched as far as the UN Headquarters. They held a rally again, strongly urging the puppet authorities of south Korea to opt for probing the truth about the disaster.