Civic groups hold a candlelight festival to condemn Japan's Abe regime on Liberation Day.

The 2nd Nationwide City Conference on August 15, Independence Day 74, which was attended by 750 NGOs, including the Civil Society Group Solidarity Meeting, the Korean Christian City Prayer Meeting for Just Peace, and the Civil Society Group Solidarity Meeting. One afternoon, at the Franciscan Education Center in Jung-gu, Seoul, Abe said, "The Abe regime should immediately withdraw a series of economic pressure measures and work together to ensure responsible compensation for victims of forced mobilization."

The city council said, "Abe regime is denying the past history of Japanese invasion and trying economic pressure to abolish the peace constitution and go to the way of rearm." Will be criticized. "

The city council also urged the South Korean government to "use this provocation as an opportunity to establish a new Korea-Japan relationship," and clearly stated its opposition to the undermining of Japan's peace constitution and the pursuit of collective self-defense and the ROK-Japan Military Information Security Agreement (GSOMIA / Jisomia). You must refuse to extend. "

They will hold the Candlelight Festival at August 15 at Gwanghwamun on the 15th at the end of the August 15th Abe Gwangju National Candlelight Cultural Festival, and on the 24th, they will call for the destruction of Jisomia.

(Photo: Reporter Park Eui-rae, Yonhap News)