Flags of member unions of KCTU entering the venue of "National Workers' Rally to Continue the Spirit of April 3 Popular Uprising" in front of Jeju City Hall on March 31. (Photo Metal Union)

The south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU -) issued a statement on April 2, 72 years after the April 3 Popular Uprising, according to the south Korean Internet newspaper Tongil News The statement called for totally revising the "Jeju April 3 special law" in order to solve all problems related to the April 3 uprising.It said that the truth behind the massacres of participants in the uprising should be probed, the chief culprit make an official apology and the victims be reinstated.It stressed that the campaign for total revision of the special law would go on.(KCNA - April 7, 2020)