struggle for democracy and justice

Struggle for abolition of National Security Law The Busan Joint Action for Scrapping "National Security Law" held a press conference at the plaza of the Busan City Office on April 1 in demand of the abrogation of the NSL, 72 years after the fabrication of the NSL. The organization said in a press release that the NSL is the worst evil law to be scrapped as it has been used as a tool of regimes to execute and imprison a lot of people for more than 70 years. The NSL repressing freedom of democratic ideology must be abolished, they stressed. On the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of the April 3 uprising The April 3 popular uprising was a rightful popular uprising to achieve social democracy and national reunification against the US colonial enslavement policy and its plot to keep Korea into two. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions issued a statement on April 2, 72 years after the April 3 Popular 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. Meanwhile, the Association of Bereaved Families of Victims of Jeju April 3 Uprising and other organizations called for the resignation of candidate of the Future Korea Party who branded the resistance as "an armed rebellion" and urged the FKP to take a proper step and apologize to the inhabitants of Juju and the bereaved families.