It urged the south Korean authorities to stop deployment of U.S. strategic assets and war exercises against the north.

Speakers at the rally denounced that the joint air force drill with the U.S. to be held this time is aiming at preemptive attack on the north and escalating the danger of war on the Korean peninsula.

It is unreasonable that the authorities are escalating joint military drills with the U.S. while calling upon the north to come to the table of dialogue, they said.

They said the present chief executive is enforcing the project for illegal deployment of THAAD after breaking the democratic order much touted by himself.