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KCTU Declares General Strike

Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- The south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) held a rally in Kyonggi Province on Sept. 17 at which it declared to launch a general strike against the authorities' moves for retrogressively revise labor market structure, according to Chamsesang, an internet paper of south Korea.

The organization condemned the "government" for pushing forward the retrogressive revision of the labor market structure under the plea of the "labor reform".

In order to check this, the workers across south Korea should launch a powerful general strike all at once, it held.

It noted that the KCTU will fight together with the people in protest against the authorities' move to kill workers.