DPRK Holds Mass Rally, Demonstration Against USRepresentatives of the general public of Pyongyang City made a series of speeches at the rally of 200,000 people, expressing their indignation at policies of the United States. In an address to the gathering, Ryang Man Gil, Chairman of the Pyongyang City People's Committee, said that the Korean War was a "criminal war of aggression deliberately ignited by the U.S. to stifle the DPRK and realize their ambition for world supremacy and a war of unprecedented mass killings of civilians." He said that the DPRK has exerted ever since then all possible efforts for putting an early end to the unstable state of ceasefire, removing the danger of war on the Korean Peninsula, ensuring lasting peace there and achieving the independent and peaceful reunification of the country. "However, the U.S., far from drawing due lesson in defeat it suffered in the Korean War, has challenged maliciously the peace- loving DPRK's sincerity and efforts for reunification while persistently committing new war provocation pursuant to the hostile policy toward the DPRK. "The present U.S. administration has brought grave obstacles to the favorably developing inter-Korean relations and national reunification," he noted. "The U.S. should discontinue the reckless moves for confrontation and war against the DPRK, apologize for the crimes committed against the Korean nation and immediately quit South Korea, taking along its troops, nuclear weapons and other combat equipment," he said. The Korean War ended in an armistice in 1953. No peace treaty has been signed and the peninsula remains divided. |
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