Gwangju City to Hold 20th Anniversary Event of June 15 from the 13th

Gwangju City Hall

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 11th that the ‘20th Anniversary Commemoration Event of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration in Gwangju,’ hosted by the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration Implementation South Side Committee Gwangju Headquarters and private organizations related to unification based in Gwangju, will be held starting from the 13th.

First, on the 13th at 2 PM, the ‘Walgawhalbuk (North) Talk Concert,’ conducted by YouTubers famous for fact-checking fake news about inter-Korean relations and life in the North, will take place at the audiovisual room of the Jeonnam National University Museum.

Then, on the 15th at 11 AM, the ‘20th Anniversary Commemoration Ceremony of the June 15 Joint Declaration in Gwangju,’ attended by private, public, and political officials to reflect on the spirit and historical significance of the June 15 Joint Declaration, a milestone for inter-Korean reconciliation, cooperation, and peaceful unification, will be held at the multipurpose auditorium of Jeonil Building 245.

On the 20th at 11 AM, at the unification rice cultivation area in Yongdu-dong, Seo-gu, farmers will hold a unification farming prayer ceremony expressing their hopes for peaceful unification and the affection of the Korean people, followed by a ‘Unification Rice Transplanting’ event where rice seedlings are planted by hand.

Lee Myung-soon, Director of the Peace Infrastructure Creation Division of the city, said, “The June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, announced through the historic summit meeting between leaders?the first of its kind in the history of division?is the root and starting point of the October 4, 2007 Summit Declaration and the three inter-Korean summits in 2018,” adding, “To resolve the recently strained inter-Korean relations, we must return to the spirit of the joint declaration and implement it practically.”

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