Joint Appeal Issued

Pyongyang, August 24 (KCNA) -- The North, South and Overseas Headquarters of the Pan-National Alliance for Korea's Reunification made public a joint appeal on Thursday in connection with the fact that the touch-and-go situation is prevailing on the Korean peninsula due to the Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military drills kicked off by the U.S. in south Korea.

The joint appeal calls for expressing firm will to eradicate the root cause of war on the Korean peninsula, safeguard the dignity and the sovereignty of the nation and take the lead in ushering in the new era of peace of the country and its independent reunification, it says:

Let us all the compatriots at home and abroad wage a vigorous struggle to oppose the frantic Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises by the U.S. and its vassal forces!

Let us all Koreans turn out as one in the nation-wide anti-U.S. sacred struggle for defending the security and peace of the nation, feeling responsible as the masters of their own destinies and peace!

Let us stage a nation-wide struggle against the attempt to unleash a war by the U.S. introducing THAAD and all other nuclear strategic assets into south Korea!

Let us invigorate the struggle to frustrate the U.S. moves for igniting a nuclear war everywhere fellow countrymen live!

2. Let's wage dynamic nationwide struggle to drive out the U.S. forces out of south Korea!

It is the U.S. invariable ambition to make the Korean peninsula a stronghold for realizing its strategy for putting Northeast Asia under its control. It does not care even though a nuclear war breaks out on this land and tens of thousands of Koreans die. This is the real intension of the U.S.

Let's resolutely reject the U.S. arrogant behavior of attempting to turn three thousand-ri land of Korea into a nuclear war theatre and offer the Koreans as cannon fodder of a nuclear war, and strikingly demonstrate the nation's dignity and spirit!

Let all the Koreans in the north and the south and abroad turn out in the struggle to immediately drive the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces out of south Korea and achieve the lasting peace of the country!

Let's wage dynamic nationwide movement to make the U.S. forces pay a price for all the crimes it committed against the Korean nation!

3. Let's resolutely foil the acts of serving the U.S. and the moves for escalating confrontation with the fellow countrymen by the forces standing against the reunification at home and abroad!

Today the north-south relations have reached the catastrophe and they fail to make even an inch of advance, and the military tension has reached the height on the Korean peninsula. This is attributable to the south side authorities' servile act of following the U.S. vicious policy hostile toward the DPRK.

The south side authorities have to make a serious option at crossroads of pursuance of outsiders, national independence, peace and prosperity.

Let's never tolerate the vicious traitorous act of leaving the destiny of the nation and its interests to the tender mercy of outsiders but thoroughly reject it!

Let's denounce the vicious policy of serving the U.S. and the policy of submitting to outsiders and maintain firm stand of national independence and the stand of giving priority to the nation and attaching importance to it!

Let all the Koreans in the north and the south and abroad get firmly united, foil the U.S. and its followers' frantic moves for provoking a nuclear war and usher in the new era of peace and independent reunification of the country! -0-