Speakers at the conference slammed the authorities for committing hideous provocations and frantically staging large-scale war exercises to invade the north in collusion with the U.S., creating a touch-and-go situation.

They held that the saber-rattling should be halted at once.

They called upon all the compatriots to struggle in unity to foil the moves of the anti-reunification forces for a war and escalated confrontation.