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August 15 Grand Reunification March Held in Seoul

KCNA

    Pyongyang, August 18 (KCNA) -- An August 15 grand reunification march for peace against war was reportedly held in Seoul on August 15 with more than 20,000 members of different organizations from across south Korea and citizens in attendance. A "reunification meeting for peace against war", the main function of the August 15 grand reunification march, took place at 3 p.m. under the co-sponsorship of the Reunification Solidarity, the National Solidarity of People and the All-people Measure Committee for Sin Hyo Sun and Sim Mi Son, Schoolgirls Killed by a U.S. Armored Car.
    The chairman of the South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification, the permanent chairman of the National Solidarity of People and the representative of the Democratic Workers' Party in their speeches called upon the 70 million compatriots in the south, the north and overseas to closely unite in one mind and open a new day of independence and peaceful reunification.
    Then an art performance on the anti-war and anti-U.S. themes took place.
    It was preceded in various places of the city by the 2003 worker's rally for peace against war, a rally of youth and students, a rally of the poor of the August 15 grand reunification march for peace against war, a reunification meeting of youth and children, an August 15 rally for the independence, reunification, peace and disarmament of the People for Bringing Peace and Reunification to denounce the U.S. posing a threat of war, to oppose growing defence spendings and to implement the June 15 joint declaration and a rally of the reunification solidarity to denounce Japanese militarism on the 58th anniversary of the country's liberation.
    The main function was followed by a grand candlelight procession and a commemorative meeting of the Reunification Solidarity of the August 15 National Rally.
    The resolution of the 70 million people for peace and reunification adopted at the August 15 National Rally for Peace and Reunification in Pyongyang was read out at the commemorative meeting.
    The participants closed all the events of the August 15 grand reunification march past midnight and held a ceremony of dissolving the organising group of 100,000 people of the vanguard of reunification and August 15 grand reunification march at the dawn of August 16.
    Waving flags of different organizations, they renewed their determination to achieve closer unity and solidarity and smash the war moves of the U.S. and invariably carry on the struggle for the realization of the independent and peaceful reunification of the country.