Speakers underscored the need to make this year a year of putting an end to confrontation between the south and the north, achieving reconciliation, defusing military tensions and creating circumstances for peaceful reunification on the Korean peninsula.

Workers, artistes, students and schoolchildren in Ulsan area, 615 in all, sang in chorus.

Its participants expressed the will to preserve and implement the June 15 joint declaration and achieve reunification, the cherished desire of the nation, at an early date.