The statement accused the authorities of detaining Kim Ul Su, acting chairman of the South Headquarters of Pomminryon, in the wake of their arrest of Kim Se Chang, a member of the Organizing Committee of the headquarters.

It went on:

This repressive campaign was prompted by their foolish scenario to weather their ruling crisis caused by the Intelligence Service's election coup through their crackdown upon the headquarters and attribute the candlelight actions now spreading like a prairie fire to the agitation by the forces following the north.

It is the immutable truth that sycophancy and treachery can never prevail over independence and patriotism, it held.

It extended solidarity to the South Headquarters of Pomminryon in its indomitable struggle for implementing the June 15 joint declaration, strongly opposed to the flunkeyist and treacherous forces against national reunification and the nation.

The statement demanded the south Korean security authorities halt at once the suppression of the headquarters and unconditionally free all the detained pro-reunification patriots.