Attending it were members of local autonomous bodies and institutions and dozens of civic and public organizations in North Jolla Province and citizens, youth and children, more than 3 000 in all.

The permanent representative of the North Jolla Provincial Headquarters of the South Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration said in an opening address that the great journey for peace and reunification made with the publication of the June 15 joint declaration was suspended due to the authorities' policy for confrontation with fellow countrymen in the north.

He demanded the authorities create conditions to enable those from the south, the north and overseas to gather in one place to celebrate the anniversary of the publication of the June 15 joint declaration.

The participants wearing the shirts emblazoned with letters "south-north reconciliation" and "realization of peace" ran 6.15 km amid the sound of three gongs symbolic of the north, the south and abroad, carrying the desire to open up a new era of independent reunification.