Present there were officials of local party and power organs, working people's organizations, industrial establishments and farms and working people, youth and students.

At the rallies, the statement of the DPRK government was read out before speeches.

The speakers expressed full support for the DPRK government's statement which solemnly declared it would make the U.S. pay for its hideous crimes against our state and people.

They scathingly denounced the UNSC "sanctions resolution" as a hideous unethical criminal document unprecedented in history which can be cooked up only by the U.S. barbarians working with bloodshot eyes to eliminate the DPRK, a socialist bulwark, from this planet.

They expressed their will to counter the "sanctions" with retaliation and "confrontation" with do-or-die resistance of justice now that the U.S. imperialists resort to all-round provocation in all fields of politics, economy and military affairs.

Then followed public processions.