On January 13 the People for Peace and Reunification, the South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Cointry's Reunification, the Family Movement for Realizing Democracy, the Korean Catholic Priests¡¯ Council for Justice, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and other civic organizations held the 112^th anti-US solidarity rally near the US embassy in Seoul.

Holding that they have continuously held the anti-US solidarity rallies for the last 10 years, speakers at the rally stressed that the progressive forces should bring a decisive phase for the reunification movement and deal a telling blow to the conservative forces this year.

They said that the US did nothing but divided the nation and has incessantly posed aggressive provocations against the DPRK after occupying south Korea.

They added that all the people from different social standings should turn out in the struggle to stop the aggressive war drills of the US and the south Korean warlike forces against the DPRK.

Read out there was a resolution titled ¡°Let Us Struggle to Repeal the US Hostile Policy toward the DPRK and Conclude a Peace Treaty on the Korean Peninsula¡±.

The resolution warned if the US persists in its hostile policy against the DPRK and exacts only unilateral concessions from the DPRK, the Korean nation will never tolerate it.

The resolution emphasized that all the people should dynamically struggle to remove the war crisis from this land by completely revoking the US hostile policy against the DPRK and concluding a peace treaty on the Korean Peninsula to bring about a permanent peace.

The participants chanted slogans ¡°Stop scooping for the US troops and revive the economy for the grass roots!¡± and ¡°Drive the US troops out of south Korea and realize a peace treaty!¡±. 

 

Reckless Moves for Invading the DPRK

The treacherous Lee Myung-bak clan that set out on the all-out showdown with the DPRK from the outset of the New Year is further pushing the situation into a brink of war in collusion with the outside forces.

On the first days of this year, the defense minister cried out for establishing the ¡°prompt-response posture¡± and ¡°all-direction defense posture¡± at the areas facing the ¡°enemy¡± including the Demilitarized Zone. 

Instigated by him the south Korean army generals were busy themselves in completing the ¡°war-time administration¡± state at the field commanding offices and the defense ministry is now working out the so-called ¡°plan to supplement personnel of the field units¡±.

The 51^st infantry division of the puppet army began the ¡°exercises in bitter cold winter¡± to cope with the ¡°provocation of a limited war¡± in the south western areas of Gyonggi Province from January 19, and the 53^rd division held inauguration ceremonies of local units of the homeland reserve forces one after another in Busan, Ulsan and other area vociferating about ¡°carrying out the perfect civic-government-army joint defense operations¡± and ¡°local defense operation system altered to deal with security threats¡±.

The south Korean war maniacs implored at the 40^th south Korea-US ¡°annual security conference¡± of last year for rapid assistance to south Korea in contingency by the US imperialist reinforcements including hundreds of thousands troops and 160 warships. More recently the US military are intensively deploying 16 warships of the ¡°Aegis¡± warships group at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and Yokoska Harbor in Japan on the pretext of coping with ¡°missile threats from north Korea¡±.

It is said that a battalion of ¡°F-16¡± fighters of the US Air Force will soon arrive in south Korea and the operating force of ¡°U-2¡± high-altitude strategic reconnaissance planes with the mission of aerial spying on the DPRK is to be reinforced on a large scale. Referring to this the south Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff is clamoring that there is no ¡°vacuum of war potential¡± thanks to such US measures.

Such a fact glaringly shows that the Lee Myong-bak bellicose group is rushing headlong into provoking an aggressive war against north Korea in league with foreign forces, openly negating the reconciliation and unity of the nation and the improvement of the inter-Korean relations, and its war frenzy has already exceeded the danger limit.

The crimes of the Lee group which drove the inter-Korean relations to a total rupture and pushed the situation to a brink of war in the first year of its ruling can never be pardoned.

The AINDF and the south Korean patriotic people will further intensify the struggle against the traitorous Lee Myung-bak group in order to crush its temerarious war provocations by concerted efforts of the nation.