From the S&S archives:
One million Seoulites at anti-Kim Il Sung rally

SEOUL — An estimated one million Seoul citizens, fearful that the Communist conquest of Indochina might encourage North Korea to plot invasion, have staged the biggest anti-Communist rally in South Korea's postwar history.

The well-organized demonstration, approved by President Park Chung Hee's authoritarian government, was held Saturday on an island in the Han River on Seoul's southern perimeter.

Even politicians who had served jail sentences for opposing Park were present. One told newsmen he was there to support "the noble cause of anti-Communism."

Resolutions adopted by shouts of the ralliers included:

¶ America should stand by and strengthen its commitments to defend South Korea from aggression.

¶ Any activities detrimental to national unity would be "traitorous acts" and the leaders should be punished.

¶ Endorsement of President Park's special statement on April 29, the day before the Saigon government collapsed, that stern internal measures were necessary because of the threat of invasion from the North.

The fall of the South Vietnamese Government to the Viet Cong has brought a crisis mood to South Korea.

Seoul's rally was the climax to demonstrations that have been held throughout the country for the past 12 days.

It was sponsored by the National Council for Total Security, an organization formed Thursday by representatives of 38 civic, religious and trade groups.

North Korean Premier Kim Il Sung was visiting Peking during the collapse of South Vietnam and he repeated his demand that American troops withdraw from South Korea, saying unification talks were impossible as long as they remained here.

In a two-page advertisement in Sunday's New York Times, Kim Il Sung said that "the struggle for national reunification in our country is a struggle between the patriots and the traitors." He accused Park's government of seeking to maintain the division of Korea and added: "We cannot tolerate the South Korean authorities obstructing national reunification and selling South Korea to the U.S. imperialists and the Japanese militarists today. Our people will decisively frustrate all maneuvers of the partitionists and surely win the cause of national reunification."

The advertisement, placed by the North Korean Information Office in Stockholm, said Kim Il Sung's remarks were taken from a speech to visiting Panamanian journalists last September.