Present there were officials of local party and power organs and working people's organizations, service personnel of the Korean People's Army and the Korean People's Internal Security Forces, working people of different social standings and youth and students in the provinces.

The statement issued by a spokesman for the KPA Supreme Command was read out to be followed by speeches.

The speakers condemned the group of rat-like traitors for hurting the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK again, not content with committing the thrice-cursed high treason during the period of mourning the great loss to the nation, and vowed to wipe out them to the last man so that they may not find any shelter on the earth.

Intolerable are crimes rat-like Lee committed by setting in motion aged reactionaries, gangster-like students and ultra-right conservative media persons to hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK, they stressed, and went on:

As it is a waste to use a bullet for killing rat-like Lee, it is better to leave him hung on the gallows for ten days, nay a hundred days, till he perishes, dried up.

We will clearly show the group of traitors what terrible strikes the army of Mt. Paektu makes when it gets angry.

The revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK will wipe out to the last man the rat-like Lee group going reckless, not fearful of Heaven, by merciless physical strikes and thus achieve the historic cause of the national reunification.

Then followed protest demonstrations.