The south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), which is taking the lead in the struggle for social democracy and genuine life of the workers, in a press conference on Feb. 25 formally declared it would wage a campaign to force the regime to step down through the April general strike and on Mar. 11 trade unions under the KCTU and the Federation of Trade Unions of south Korea held an inaugural ceremony of joint action of the manufacturing field at which they vowed to launch a general strike in case the authorities make "restructuring of labor market".

Different regional headquarters of the KCTU held roving round-table talks and intensive rallies at which they expressed their will to check and frustrate the puppet conservative regime's moves to retrogressively revise the "labor law".

Mounting high are massive actions across south Korea such as rallies and demonstrations by more than 80 000 people of all social standings including government employees in Seoul on March 28 in protest against the regime's retrogressive revision of pension for government employees.

A spokesman for the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea (GFTUK) in a statement issued on Friday said this is an eruption of the pent-up grievance and resentment at the puppet conservative group which is ruthlessly trampling down the democratic right and vital rights of the south Koreans.

The C.C., GFTUK extends full support and firm solidarity to the massive actions of people from all walks of life in south Korea including workers who have resolutely risen up to oppose the puppet group's sycophancy and acts of treachery and unpopular rule and defend their independent demand and vital rights, the statement said, and went on:

Since the emergence of the present regime, the U.S. colonial subjugation of south Korea has deepened, the living conditions of the people have worsened and south Korea has turned into the worst hell and tundra of human rights.

Thrown into the mire of destitution, workers are committing suicides and some of them have been on sit-in strike for several months on a high chimney in winter. Streets are flooded with huge crowds of jobless people.

However, the puppet group is brutally suppressing their actions by labeling them "illegal ones," lending a deaf ear to their strong demands.

The south Korean workers should turn out as one in the all-people resistance at these crossroads of life and death and thus mete out a stern judgment to the puppet conservative regime.

The entire working class in the northern half of Korea will voice positive support to the just actions of the workers and people from all walks of life in south Korea for democracy and the right to existence in the future, too, and express firm conviction that their just struggle is sure to triumph.