Appeal to World Progressives Issued

 Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- The participants in an international forum supporting the just struggle of the Korean people for sovereignty and peace issued an appeal to the world progressives on June 28.
The appeal called for vigorous international activities to disclose and condemn the criminal deeds of the U.S., which provoked the Korean War and perpetrated unprecedented, unethical crimes.
It stressed the need to lift up the voices of denunciation of the U.S., which during the war massacred innocent civilians, conducted indiscriminate bombing on residential districts and even committed shuddering genocides by using chemical and germ weapons in different parts.
It also called for more vigorous struggle to frustrate the vicious anti-DPRK moves of the U.S. and its followers extremely aggravating the situation in the Korean peninsula.
Such various forms of activities as release of statement and article, signature campaign, rally and demonstration strongly demanding the U.S. withdrawal of its hostile policy toward the DPRK should be waged on a worldwide scale, the appeal said.
It called for extending full support and solidarity to the legitimate self-defensive measures taken by the DPRK to prevent the danger of a new war in the Korean peninsula and defend the regional and global peace.
It called for lifting up the louder voices of support to the just measures taken by the DPRK for self-defence through internet and various media.
The world progressives should join the Korean people in the struggle for defending the national sovereignty and peace through united forces, it stressed.
It called upon all the progressive organizations and personages of various circles in the world to strengthen their solidarity and unity and cooperation in the international arena disclosing and condemning the U.S.-led imperialists and dominationist forces' war and aggression moves and infringement upon other nations' sovereignty.
The Korean people will surely emerge victorious in their struggle to defend the sovereignty and security of the country, peace in the region and the rest of the world and build a dignified and prosperous powerful country under the leadership of the respected His Excellency Kim Jong Un, the appeal stressed. -0-