More than 40 civic and social organizations and organizations of youth and students and religionists held a joint press conference outside the puppet Ministry of Defense in Seoul in denunciation of the traitorous action on Dec. 29 last year.

Speakers at the press conference said that the present regime embarked upon the road of depending on Japan for military affairs, not content with dependence on the U.S.

The danger of this contract is to provide all military secret-information to Japan, they said.

Its main goal is to establish U.S.-led tripartite missile defense system and thus conduct missile operations against the north, the speakers said, urging the authorities to retract the contract at once.