Caveat to Uncle Sam On Nov. 21, the Paektu safeguard group was formed. It sent an open warning to the US and anti-reunification elements and started its activity.       A new history is starting in 2018, however, the US is interfering in inter-Korean relations. Who is not witnessing the current situation of the Korean Peninsula? We issue a stern warning to the US. We will not allow any obstructive moves toward Korea’s reunification and don’t disturb peaceful efforts of the south and the north of Korea, the group strongly criticized the US at a news conference on the day.      The Liberty Korea Party is hindering the process of requiring yes or no over the National Assembly ratification of the Panmunjeom and Pyongyang Declarations, it has turned its back on the peaceful reunification as it maintained its power under the pretext of the acute situation in the Korean Peninsula and the group would not tolerate the LKP’s vicious move in the future, it pointed out.   The grou

Ardent public admiration A youth and students preparatory committee for welcoming Chairman  Kim Jong Un ’s visit to Seoul was formed on November 1 to start its work. Thirteen groups including the Solidarity for People's Sovereignty and the Progressive Federation of University Students of south Korea called a press conference in Seoul on November 7 to declare the formation of committee for welcoming Chairman  Kim Jong Un . Those who have national conscience should welcome Chairman  Kim Jong Un ’s visit to Seoul, transcending all differences, Yun Han-tak co-chairman of the committee said and appealed to make Seoul and south Korea into a flower garden of peace and reunification through active preparation.      The co-representatives of the Progressive Federation of University Students of south Korea and the Youth Party called for the people to make Chairman  Kim Jong Un ’s historic visit to Seoul as an epochal event of independent reunification and that of historic signific

Historic inspection encouraging reunification Twenty-two years have passed since Leader   Kim Jong Il   inspected the truce village of Panmunjeom.    His historic inspection of Panmunjeom on November 24, 1996 encouraged the Korean nation distressed by national division with hope of reunification.    On the day, he recollected great life and undying exploits of President   Kim Il Sung   who devoted his all to the country’s reunification until his last breath in front of the monument to President   Kim Il Sung 's signature. He defined the three principles of national reunification, the 10-point program for the great unity of the whole nation and the proposal for founding a Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo, set forth by the President as the three charters for national reunification. He hardened his fixed will to reunify the country for sure true to the President’s instruction for national reunification. The news rocked the Korean Peninsula and excited the Korean natio

On Nov. 10, a rally of workers took place under the sponsorship of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions in Seoul. About 60 000 workers from across south Korea took part in the rally to renew their victory in the general strike.                               Retrogressive labor policy by family-controlled conglomerates and business groups, defunct labor commitment and stationary old legacies: expectation of the government is changing into disappointment and despair, the KCTU deplored. It would transform the south Korean society in the spirit of the candlelight resistance and it is a sound succession to spirit of Chun Tae-il in 1970, it noted. Prior to the rally, eleven trade unions including the Metal Workers Trade Union and the Mart Trade Unions held meetings outside the Cheongwadae and Seoul.   At the rally the KCTU declared a joint action against 1.1 million part-timers from Nov. 12 to 16 and planned to open mass rally on Dec. 1 in Seoul.

Mounting anti-US sentiment Rallies took place in Seoul to mark the 89 th  anniversary of Gwangju student uprising occurred on November 3,  1929  against Japan’s occupation of Korea.   A rally was held outside the US embassy in Seoul on Nov. 3 with attendance of 800 students under the sponsorship of the Solidarity for People's Sovereignty. Today is the day of great turn that the Korean nation is advancing toward the independent reunification, now the supreme patriotism is the anti-US action, the US is the enemy of peace, prosperity and reunification of the Korean Peninsula, the anti-US action is the patriotic work for making a new era, the sponsor of the rally said. He called for the people to kindle torch against the US in the spirit of the candlelight resistance that ousted the anti-reunification elements. They should respect the April 27 and the September 19 declarations agreed by the leaders of the south and the north of Korea, Lee Yang-jin from the Korean Confed

A candlelight rally was held at the Gwanghwamun Plaza in Seoul to mark the 2 nd anniversary of candlelight resistance. Standing chairman Park Seok-woon of the Solidarity for Progress said that many changes witnessed by the victory of candlelight resistance and the Korean Peninsula, once a tinder-box, is advancing toward the trend of peace and prosperity.    Co-representative Park Rae-goon noted that still many accidents are occurring after sinking of ferry Sewol and a stable society free from disaster and people-oriented society should be built. Genuine peace is ensured when people’s daily life change, we would launch a general strike in November to accelerate reform, chairman of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions Kim Myong-hwan noted. They would demand the abolition of part-time job through the general strike, he said. When the candles were blown out by the wind, they raised high the pickets.     In the middle of the rally, they appreciated a documenta