Grand Festival for National Reunification held in S. Korea
KCNA
Pyongyang, June 17 (KCNA) -- The Grand Festival for National Reunification to mark the 3rd anniversary of the publication of the June 15 joint declaration was held at the memorial hall for Paekbom in Seoul on June 15 under the sponsorship of the preparatory committee of the headquarters for promoting the joint national functions in 2003, according to a news report.
It was attended by more than 700 members of different organizations and at least 50 foreigners who came to Seoul to participate in the international peace conference for peace and reunification of the Korean Peninsula.
At the festival the speakers called upon the Koreans to clear the sky over Korea of the dark clouds of war and open up a new era of independence, peace and national co-prosperity through national cooperation and by the concerted efforts of the nation, saying that upholding the June 15 joint declaration leads to patriotism.
Conveyed there were a recorded congratulatory letter of Kim Yong Dae, chairman of the North Side's Preparatory Committee for the June 15 Grand Festival for National Reunification, messages of greetings from the general federation of trade unions of Korea, the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, the union of agricultural workers of Korea, the Korean Democratic Women's Union, the Korean Council of Religionists and the Overseas Preparatory Committee for the Grand Festival for National Reunification addressed to the festival.
An appeal to the 70 million Koreans was read out there.
A congratulatory performance was given by chorus for one Korea, etc.
The first June 15 Marathon contest for reunification, the international seminar to mark the 3rd anniversary of the publication of the June 15 joint declaration, a press conference to denounce conservative press for distorting the June 15 joint declaration, etc. took place in Seoul and other parts of South Korea on the same day.
