At 14:00 local time on March 11, hundreds of representatives of South Korean civic groups held a rally in front of the Presidential Palace in Yongshan District, Seoul to protest the upcoming large-scale joint field combat exercise between South Korea and the United States.
From the 13th to the 23rd of this month, South Korea and the United States plan to hold the "Freedom Shield" large-scale joint military exercise.
It is reported that the scale of the exercise will exceed the scope and scale of previous joint military exercises such as "Vulture", which is the first time that South Korea and the United States have restarted a theater-level large-scale actual combat maneuver exercise after a lapse of five years.
The participants in the rally expressed that they demanded the immediate suspension of the South Korea-US joint military exercise, and hoped that through peaceful demonstrations, people's awareness of the seriousness of the war crisis would be awakened, and they would urge the suspension of the South Korea-US joint military exercise to ease military tension.
Statements from various industry groups expressed the urgent need for peace that day.
They held up large flags and banners with slogans such as "Stop hostilities and strive for peace" and "Stop South Korea-U.S. joint military exercises."
After the rally, representatives of South Korean civic groups held protest banners and small windmills and set off from the front of the Presidential Palace in Yongsan District and walked to Seoul Plaza in the city center.
(Sui Zhiyuan produced by Liu Xu and Wan Jiaxin)
Responsible editor: [Ye Pan]