- On the 60^th year of the fabrication of the law -

 

 

The National Security Law” which was fabricated in south Korea on December 1, 1948, under the pretext of the so-called “national security” was notorious throughout the world as the worst evil law.

It is the most anti-nation, anti-democracy and anti-reunification law unprecedented in the world in terms of its contents.

The law designated north Korea of fellow countrymen as “enemy state” and stipulated that all regions, organizations and communities and their members related to the “enemy state” are “anti-state region”, “anti-state organization” and “member of anti-state organization”.

The NSL is stemming the free visit, contacts and dialogue between the north and the south.

According to this evil law, if the southerners visit the north they are subject to the “crime of infiltration and escape”, if they have contacts, dialogue and correspondence with the northerners, to the “crime of meeting and communications”, if they receive, listen to or accept the assertions of the north, to the “crime of praise and encouragement”, if they provide conveniences to the north, to the “crime of offering conveniences”, if they don’t notify such acts, to the “crime of no-notification”, and are harshly punished up to death.

And the NSL is an anti-democracy and anti-human rights evil law that represses the righteous struggle of the south Korean people for democratization of the society and national reunification.

So the law cracks down upon the progressive forces and the patriotic people fighting for democratization of the society and the reunification as the “leftist forces”, and the progressive parties and organizations as “anti-state organizations”.

It scathingly tramps upon the people's elementary rights such as freedom of assembly, demonstration, organization, speech and press.

The NSL is a very cruel fascist evil law in terms of punishment regulations.

In comparison with other criminal laws the NSL sets very sever punishments, so if anyone was incriminated by the “crime of forming an anti-state organization” he or she is usually sentenced to death or imprisonment for life.

By force of this fascist evil law many progressive organizations were forcibly disbanded and many democratic personages and pro-reunification patriotic fighters were executed for the last 60 years.

The Lee Myong-bak group which recently took power in south Korea follows in the footsteps of the successive fascist dictators to extensively strengthen the suppression bodies such as prosecution and police, and employs the ill-famed NSL to indiscriminately arrest many progressive personages and patriots who have called for national unity and reunification, supported the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, and devotedly fought to implement them.

Even worse, it atrociously cracked down on the candlelit struggles of the people for their right to existence.

The abolition of the heinous “National Security Law” is the demand of the June 15 independent reunification era and the unanimous call of the entire nation.

On November 30, a rally was held in Seoul under the theme “60 years of National Security Law, let us put a stop to its disgraceful history. For a world without the NSL. Let us repeal the NSL”.

It was participated in by members of various civic organizations including the People's Solidarity to Abolish the NSL, the South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country’s Reunification, the south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the South Korean Council of Youth Organizations and the Lawyers for Democratic Society.

The participants denounced the Lee Myong-bak clique for strengthening the fascist regime in reliance on the NSL which is no longer needed in the June 15 reunification era, and called for repealing the evil law chanting such slogans as “Abolish the NSL!”, “Let us check the security-oriented suppression!” and “Set free the prisoners of conscience!”.

The AINDF and the patriotic people in south Korea will smash the Lee clique’s moves of confrontation with the north and fascistization through the vigorous struggle and ostracize the ferocious anti-nation and anti-reunification NSL from this land for good.

 

Appraisal of South Korean Media on Six-month Ruling

of Traitor Lee Myong-bak

 

On the occasion of 6-month lapse since traitor Lee Myong-bak took office, south Korean media including the “Ryunhap News”, “Gyeonghyang Sinmun”, the daily Hankyereh and “Maeil Gyeongje” carried all at once commentaries on the fiasco of his internal and external policies, and its prospects under such titles as “Limit of the Bulldozer-like Leadership”, “the Worst Trial of the Pragmatic Diplomacy for National Interests” and “He Never Set His Hand to the reform for Fear of Candlelight”.

Some points to be marked;        

 

- The media appraised his administering of “state affairs” an all-out failure.

The media indicated that though Lee Myong-bak set about administering the “state affairs” his support rating declined to 10% point for his cabinet consisting of the rich, irresponsible coping with the economic crisis and the humiliating decision of importing American beef in disregard of the people's sentiment in domestic policy and, in external affairs, the “diplomatic security” of south Korea is mired in overall crisis by its failure to adopt a chairman-statement at the foreign ministers meeting of the Security Forum of the Asean Area, Japan’s claim of dominium over Dok Islet and the alternation of the naming of the dominium over Dok Islet by the US Denomination Committee.

They denounced that as a result Lee Myong-bak was forced to apologize twice before the people in a bid to appease the public anger during his six-month tenure of office.

The media pointed out that such consequences resulted from his governing in a unilateral way obsessed with excessive narcissism and hubris, and appraised that his 6-month ruling in chaos bereft of the people's support was “six months of confused leadership” and “series of terrible failures.”

 

- The media commented that the major “policy commitments” he made during the presidential elections were all repealed in face of the opposition of different social standings.

They indicated that the “project of the grand Korean Peninsula canal” and the “proposal of intensified English education”, much touted in his early days, were cast into dustbin by the people's rejection before they were publicly discussed, his “7, 4, 7 commitment” boiled down to an unrealistic pipedream and the “economy resuscitation plan” such as alleviating the restrictions on estate transactions and businesses, strengthening the agricultural and fishery competitiveness and reforming the public sectors and activating foreign investments lost their kernel and were renamed and even not passed in the “parliament”.

And his slogan to revitalize the people's livelihood by creating new jobs was condemned as a “rosy catchword” and his “diplomatic and security strategy” called “Myong-bak doctrine” is bound to the overall change of the “diplomatic and security officials” and all-out revision of the “diplomatic and security policy” due to the repeated failures of his external and north Korea policy.

The media attributed the main cause of this to the fact that he set up groundless goals far from the reality and to his wrong policy judgment, denouncing his ruling as “more instable situation for the wrong objectives” and “six months that completely lost the propellant for state affairs”.

 

- The media presaged that the prospect of the Lee Myong-bak regime will get gloomy.

The media noted that Lee Myong-bak clamored about a “low carbon, green growth”, pursuing the “people's living-first policy” and “observing the law and principles” and tried to break through the crisis straightaway by offensive administration.

However, the media said, he failed to alleviate the disappointment of different social strata evinced at the candlelit actions, and the ideological antagonism and the policy discord between the progressives and conservatives.

And it is as clear as noon day that the economic stagnation as grave as to be called the second economic crisis would persist, and the resistance of the opposition parties and dissidents to his offensive administration and pro-business policy such as the reform of public sectors and easing different sorts of restrictions would get fiercer.

The media predicted that it is still uncertain whether the people's sentiment would U-turn and the “state affairs” would get back on right track since he faces lots of difficult problems and he was bound to depend on the US and Japan in handling the issue of the deteriorating inter-Korean relations, nuclear issue and the Dok Islet dispute.

They presaged that if Lee Myong-bak enforces the “state affairs” in a coercive way again neglecting the mindset of the people who held up the candlelight he would face bigger crisis inevitably, asserting that from now on a calmer judgment will follow on his policy pursuit.