Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- The south Korean public is becoming increasingly vocal for the repeal of the "Security Law" with the lapse of 70 years since its fabrication.
The Joint Action for the Abrogation of the "Security Law" which consists of civic and social organizations grouping people from all walks of life held a press conference outside the "National Assembly" building on December 1. There it urged the regime which emerged with the support of candlelight demonstrators to take the lead in the push for the abrogation of the SL, contending that there is no room for the SL to exist at a time when the south-north relations are making progress.
The Kyunghyang Daily News of south Korea on Dec. 11 said the SL that was instituted in Dec. 1948 has been used as a tool for the violation of freedom of thinking and conscience and for the persecution of opponents by the authorities for the past 70 years, adding that so ample are the examples of spyring cases, the racket of branding people as followers of the north and coloring theory which caused harm through the invocation of the SL. The paper also added that Amnesty International has recommended the abrogation of the SL since the 1990s.
The truth behind the conspiratorial cases masterminded by the past dictatorial regime with the invocation of the SL in south Korea is being probed one after another. It sheds light on the absurdity of the existence of the evil law.
The SL is a matchlessly evil one, a copy of the "Maintenance of the Public Order Act" the Japanese imperialists cooked up for the purpose of tightening colonial rule over Korea and fascist suppression of its people.
But far from repealing the fascist law dating back to the Japanese imperialists' fascist rule that mercilessly killed Koreans, the successive south Korean conservative regimes used it as a means for dictatorial rule while retrogressively revising it again and again for the past 70 years.
Due to indiscriminate suppression on charges of violation of the SL, the freedom of thinking and conscience was cruelly violated and a great number of people aspiring after justice were thrown into prison, being labeled as "pro-north leftists" and "forces following the north".
The SL is unprecedented in its brutal nature both in the light of the roots from which it came into being and in the light of its records of mercilessly suppressing innocent people and pushing the confrontation with the fellow countrymen into the worst state.
No wonder, it has become an irresistible trend of the times to demand the abrogation of the SL in south Korea.
There is no justification for the SL to exist now that the conservative regime no longer exists and a new era has opened for national reconciliation and unity, peace and prosperity.
The south Korean authorities should repeal the SL, the root cause of all evils, if they truly stand for democracy and people's rights and wish for the continued development of the north-south relations. -0-
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