It is quite natural for religionists and people from all walks of life in South Korea to condemn the flunkeyist trip of the chief executive and express concern over the danger of war. Pro-U.S. servile diplomacy brought great disappointment and displeasure to the people of all social strata desirous of protecting independence and peace through national cooperation. None of the successive South Korean regimes so undisguisedly joined the U.S. in its moves to stifle the north and impose disasters upon fellow countrymen as the present regime did.

The Korean council of religionists fully supports the South Korean people from all walks life in their struggle and bitterly denounces the authorities' submissive act, branding it as blatant challenge to the basic spirit of the June 15 Joint Declaration calling for defending the nation's safety and peace by our nation itself and an anti-national criminal act of paving the way for a nuclear war. All the religionists in the northern half of Korea will positively defend the great Songun policy defending the nation's safety and peace and continue to wage a vigorous peace movement against the U.S. war moves.

The spokesman expressed the expectation that the religionists and people from all walks life in South Korea who are concerned about the destiny of the nation and love peace would more valiantly struggle against the U.S. moves to ignite a war in Korea and the authorities' anti-national act of supporting them.