2024.8.21.
Growing fiercer in the puppet ROK is the struggle of people from all walks of life against puppet Yoon Suk Yeol, a sycophantic zealously following the U.S. preoccupied by its ambition for hegemony and paving the way for a criminal state Japan’s reinvasion.
The 103rd candlelight rally and demonstration were staged in Seoul on August 17 with the attendance of many people from different parts, including workers, peasants, students and citizens.
The Confederation of Trade Unions and other organizations had prior meetings in different parts of Seoul, vowing to turn out in the all-people action for ousting Yoon.
Speakers charged that "freedom", cried out by Yoon on Aug. 15 while turning his face away from the past history of Japan, a war criminal state, is little short of providing freedom for the U.S. to ignite a war in the world, for the revival of Japan’s militarism and its "Self-Defense Forces’" aggression and for the monopoly capital to exploit the workers to infinity. They called on the workers, peasants and all other walks of life to get united to show their mettle to monstrous Yoon, saying that now is the time to fight for an all-out war against him who puts the country and population into pain.
The participants held a ceremony of declaring an all-out war against puppet Yoon and kindling the torch of struggle.
Then there took place the 103rd candlelight rally demanding the impeachment of Yoon.
Charging that Yoon Suk Yeol’s policy toward Japan is to promote Japan’s position to a security ally from a colonial criminal state and open up the second colonial era in which its "SDF" sets the foot of aggression on this land, speakers at the rally stressed that any slight compromise with the Yoon regime would be just a pro-Japanese act.
Then representatives of the candlelight actions in different regions read out a resolution on the nationwide candlelight demonstrations in August.
The resolution said that the parliamentary impeachment of Yoon became a fait accompli with more than 1.43 million petitioners involved and the candlelight resistance has entered a stage for rounding off the impeachment by the overwhelming public mindset. All-people resistance will be aroused through a forthcoming 100-day campaign to impeach Yoon without fail this year, it added.
The participants in the rally proposed an all-people 100-day general movement for the impeachment of Yoon, declaring that they would launch a signature campaign urging the regional law-makers to bring an impeachment bill, and the regional all-people rally, declaration on situation, fund-raising action for impeachment and other events.
The law-makers’ meeting in company with the candlelight action, too, stated that Yoon Suk Yeol should be impeached at once and the political camp should implement the orders of the population, contending that he is returning to the era of Park Chung Hee’s dictatorship as shown through his recent appointment of high-ranking officials. The minister of Defense was appointed as the head of the state security office and the head of the presidential guard as minister of Defense. Through them, Yoon is seeking to declare a "martial law" and then turn this land into a sea of war flames, it pointed out.
At the end of the rally, its participants staged a demonstration toward the puppet presidential office, chanting such slogans as "Impeach Yoon Suk Yeol, a Japanese spy at the government-general in Ryongsan!"
Meanwhile, through press conferences, statements and commentaries, organizations of various circles strongly demanded the impeachment of puppet Yoon seeking to ignite a war.
Media of the puppet ROK reported that nothing could break the will of the candlelight demonstrators demanding the impeachment of Yoon and that the only way for preventing a nuclear war crisis is to impeach Yoon and this is the will of those involved in the candlelight actions.
Rodong Sinmun