They said that the action is an anti-war and anti-U.S. demo expressing the people's anger at the concealment of anthrax germ tests that the U.S. forces present in south Korea conducted 15 times in Ryongsan, Seoul.

The U.S. imperialists plan to launch a bio-chemical war by use of anthrax germ and reduce the Korean Peninsula into a war theater again, they said, adding:

The security authorities hurled policemen into taking away demonstrators.

This made the Solidarity declare an all-night sit-in.