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International Solidarity with Korean People

KCNA

    Pyongyang, December 22 (KCNA) -- The international support to and solidarity with the Korean people in their just cause has been strengthened to an extent hither to unparalleled this year. According to data available, at least 1,730 solidarity functions have taken place this year in the DPRK and over 80 foreign countries under the sponsorship of international democratic organizations and organizations for peace against war and foreign organizations for friendship and solidarity with the Korean people.
    An international conference for ensuring peace on the Korean peninsula was held in Pyongyang in July under the co-sponsorship of international democratic organizations and the Korean Committee for Solidarity with the World People.
    The chairman of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, the secretary general of the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization, the executive secretary of the World Peace Council, the chairman of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, the chairwoman of the Women's International Democratic Federation and other delegates in their speeches expressed the belief that the Korean people and army under the Songun leadership of leader Kim Jong Il would emerge victorious in the present confrontation with the United States as they did in the last Korean war.
    A resolution of the international conference and letters to the UN secretary general and the U.S. Congress were adopted there.
    The Pyongyang International War Crimes Tribunal was held within the framework of the international conference. Laid before the tribunal by a joint international investigation group was an indictment which classified into 13 major categories the crimes committed by the United States on the Korean peninsula over the past one century or more such as the provocation of the Korean war, massacre of civilians in the wartime, barbarities of chemical and germ warfare, human right abuses in south Korea and nuclear crimes. And a stern judgement was passed on all the reactionary and inhuman policies and crimes of the U.S.
    The participants in the international conference staged a solidarity demonstration and held a solidarity rally, at which they unanimously adopted the Pyongyang manifesto of international democratic organizations and organizations for friendship and solidarity with the Korean people calling upon the world peaceloving people to wage an extensive protest movement against the U.S. hard-line policy to stifle the DPRK.
    In September, many delegates of foreign organizations and figures visiting the DPRK held a joint meeting of organizations for friendship and solidarity with the Korean people.
    Messages and letters of solidarity were sent to Kim Jong Il on every occasion such as the 3rd anniversary of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and the June 25-July 27 month of anti-U.S. joint struggle by international organizations, organizations for peace against war and foreign organizations for friendship and solidarity with the Korean people, political and public figures and people of various social strata. And statements were published and rallies, demonstrations, international meetings, seminars, photo exhibitions, film shows and other solidarity functions were held by them.
    A meeting of the executive committee of the World Peace Council held in Greece in November issued a communique supporting the Korean people in their just cause and a joint statement on the peace and reunification of the Korean peninsula in the name of international organizations and peace organizations of different countries.