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Meeting for Peace in Northeast Asia Held in Japan
Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- A meeting for peace in Northeast Asia was held in Tokyo, Japan on April 17 on the occasions of the 10th anniversary of the June 15 joint declaration and the 50th anniversary of the April 19 Popular Uprising.

Attending it were members of the Late Spring Commemoration Council of the Late Rev. Mun Ik Hwan for Embracing National Reunification and other organizations in south Korea, Korean residents in Japan and Japanese personages.

At the meeting speakers deplored that the Korean Peninsula has been turned back to the past era of grave confrontation.

They referred to the efforts being made by reunification movement organizations in south Korea to significantly greet the 10th anniversary of the June 15 joint declaration.

Addresses of solidarity were made by Japanese personages at the meeting.

They said that it is a very important task at present for the Japanese authorities to repeal the policy of national discrimination and normalize the Japan-DPRK relations.

They declared that they would wage a joint struggle for peace in the Korean Peninsula and the rest of Northeast Asia.

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