“I Declare the Independence of Korea”

The 86th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence was celebrated at the Sejong Cultural Center yesterday. Cho Man-je, the chairman of Samgyun Association, is reading the Declaration of Independence at the anniversary, which was held in commemoration of 39 anti-Japanese activists` declaring of independence at Jilin in China for the first time after Japanese occupation on February 1, 1919.

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