Present there were office-bearers of the Central Committee of the Buddhist Federation of Korea and its provincial, city and county committees, priests and monks of temples and believers.

Rituals were made to be followed by speeches and a joint prayer of the north and the south for the country's reunification was read out at the masses.

The speeches and the joint prayer said that nearly 70 years have passed since the Koreans were freed from the colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists, but they are still undergoing sufferings resulting from the territorial division.

They noted that due to the moves of outside forces and anti-reunification conservative forces, distrust and confrontation are festering between the north and the south of Korea, instead of reconciliation and unity, and these forces are staging almost every day various forms of military drills and war moves to do harm to the compatriots in collusion with outside forces.

They called upon all the Buddhists in the north and the south and abroad to achieve unity in Dharma-minded concord and judge the south Korean conservative regime chiefly responsible for division and confrontation and turn out in the practical actions to accelerate the country's reunification and achieve peace and prosperity under the banner of "By our nation itself."