The speakers recalled that no joint national event has ever been held in recent several years due to the regime's obstructions and it disallowed even the exchange of the letters for the joint national event for August 15 (day of Korea's liberation) and the football match between the workers of the south and the north for reunification this year.

They called upon south Korean people of all social strata to attend a huge people's rally against the deployment of THAAD to be held at the Kwanghwamun Plaza on Aug. 14.