Choe Su Dong, vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, read out a statement of indignation.

He said that the war launched by the U.S. imperialists in the 1950s was a war of aggression prompted by their wild ambition to turn the whole of Korea into their colony and dominate the world and the most bestial war of genocide unprecedented in the human history of war.

He denounced the U.S. imperialists for brutally killing innocent people at random irrespective of age and sex everywhere they went and reducing the northern half of Korea into ashes through indiscriminate bombing and shelling.

He expressed indignation at the U.S. imperialists for making no scruple of using germ and chemical weapons during the Korean war in wanton violation of international law and working out a terrible scenario to fall even A-bombs.

Speakers stressed that they would win victory on all fronts for building a thriving nation, holding a rifle in one hand and a hammer in the other.