S.Korean People Hold Rally for National Reunification

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S.Korean People Hold Rally for National Reunification

Thousands of South Korean people held rally Friday here, calling on national reunification amid the National Liberation Day.

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S.Korean People Hold Rally for National Reunification

Thousands of South Korean people held rally Friday here, calling on national reunification amid the National Liberation Day.

Friday is the 58th anniversary of the Korean Peninsula liberation from the Japanese colonial rule.

Some 8,000 young people from the Korean University Students League (KUSL) and union workers gathered in downtown Seoul to condemn the US hostile policy toward the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

The students shouted "US troops go back!", holding anti-US slogans. The United States now stations some 37,000 troops here as deterrent power against foreign attack.

They also held photos of the summit meeting between former South Korean Present Kim Dae-jung and the DPRK leader Kim Jong Il in 2000, saying "its time for reunification of the Korean Peninsula."

The demonstration began Friday afternoon and lasted until night.

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